[SK6]

OK, I have a Linksys WRT54GX2 WiFi route in the house. I just moved my office to a bedroom upstairs. Now, I bought an HP750 printer from some friends, and have an old intell 950- celeron box just sitting there. I loaded XP Pro on it with nothing but AVG anti virus and Webroot's Spysweeper.

So all I wanted to do was load the box, basic software, hook up the printer, select share printer and have everyone in the house have access to it. I reloaded the XP OS on it for a clean install after a reformat of the hard drive. It still can't be seen. SO any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I'm thinking it may be the router and a configuaration with it. So far I have static IP's but am not too concerned with having them set up, or at least the idiot(er)(est) box with a dedicated address.

Thanks in advance.

 

[johnbryanpeters]

What can't be seen, the computer or the printer?

Nice double post...

 

[SK6]

yeah, saw that...My bad.......


LOL! The printer.

 

[pinkshirtphotos]

throw it out the window and buy a mac

 

[LordOpie]

Can the host computer see and use the printer? If so, you selected share printer on the host?

 

[drakan]

^ And you ran your computers to run in the same workgroup or domain?

 

[binary visions]

Easiest way to make sure everything is turned on properly is to go to the Windows Help, search for "network setup wizard" and click the "Start the Network Setup Wizard" link (you can do it through start/run too but I can't remember the name of the utility).

Step through the wizard as appropriate and make sure all of your computers are in the same workgroup, as said above.

 

[SK6]

It very well could be a workgroup issue. I did set the printer for share.

 

[splat]

are you running some sort of Firewall software ? My brother in law had the sme problem , and every time he rebooted , The norton Personal fire wall would block the printer from being shared.