[dba-Tech] Sharing a printer on a Wireless Network

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Mon Sep 27 18:03:34 CDT 2004


On 27 Sep 2004 at 8:02, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access S wrote:

> Bobby:
> 
> I have four machines on a router of various OSs - W2K, WXP, WXP Pro.  Router
> supports wireless and I have a fifth machine on wireless.  Some machines can
> see other machines - some not.  Printer sharing is a problem because of
> this.  I'd like them all to see each other and have made passes at this from
> time to time.  And given up from time to time.  All the systems C drives are
> set to shareable as well as the printers.
> 
> Maybe it's the router?  Any leads on how you set up the router to let all
> the machines see each other?  What to look for?  I have the ever-popular
> Linksys BEFW 1154 (802.11b)
> 

Are they all set up in the same Workgroup or Domain and with compatible IP 
addresses and masks?

-- 
Stuart





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