printer sharing

I've got a deskjtop and a laptop and a DLink router. they were all linked happily a couple of years ago and still have their ip addresses. The desktop is hard-wired to the modem. the laptop has a wireless link. I've just upgraded both machines to windows 7 and am trying to link them. Windows...

Hello, I am trying to figure out how to install the driver for Windows7 for my HPLJ1100, I have it shared across the network properly, Windows7 finds it, but then has no idea what the driver for it is, and doesn't prompt me with a set of pre-installed drivers, ala Windows XP did. I have...

As title. I have two computers which is connected with cross over cable. Before I activate ICS to share internet connection, I managed to make two computers in a homegroup where they can share files and printer etc. After that, I bridged my 2 LAN cards, and activate the ICS. In my bridges LAN...

Hi, I have 3 computers, W2K Server, 2 x Windows 7 64bit (laptop and desktop). From the laptop I can access the C$ share on the 2k server. From W2kServer I can access the C$ share on the laptop From Desktop Windows 7 I can access the C$ share on both server and laptop But I cant access the...

My main pc is using Windows 7 64 bit build 7100, my kids pc is using XP Pro. Previously we had the networking with my main pc using Vista working perfectly, the XP pc could print on the printer connected to my pc, since I put Windows 7 on this pc I have the networking with file sharing etc...

I have a Win 7/64 7100 and a Win 7/32 7100. My 64 bit platform set up the homeGroup just fine. My 32 bit Dell Dimension 4700 4 GB ram, after some time, displays the error message "Windows Cannot Setup HomeGroup on This Computer" I ran the networking troubleshooter and the HomeGroup...

Hello all, I have 2 laptops, one running xp pro, and the other xp home. My desktop has win7 rc 7100. So far I have no problems connecting and sharing files between all 3 computers. Biggest problem i'm running into is printing from either of my laptops. I can print locally no problem. I used the...

hello there I am a complete beginner with vista, i have a desktop computer running xp, and a laptop running vista. they are both on a wireless connection, connecting to a bt homehub 2.0 . I am interested how you would connect them together, to form a home network. I do not know which is...

Hi this is probably not windows 7 specific however I am trying to accomplish it in Windows 7 so I'll ask. I have decided to dual boot one of my PC's at work. I am testing 7 out for a few programs that are specifically used with my company. Here is the issue: I am only testing just a few things...

... has stopped working. Since I have installed (upgradet from Build 7000) Windows 7 Build 7022, I get the message, "Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service has stopped working - Windows is searching for at solution to the problem" every few minutes. And the error reporting service is going...

Hi Mods . People seem to be having problems with sharing / networking printers all over the place so here's a general method that work 99% of the time to connect almost any mix of OS'es (Windows) and printers including "Network" printers -- perhaps you can make this a sticky. First part -...