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Wireless print server

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JMoore64

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Nov 5, 2003
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Here is my problem. I'm helping a inlaw set a small p2p in hisnew office.He has 4 PC's and a Laptop all XP (SP1 i belive). He wants to run everything wireless. He got 5 Netgear USB wireless adapters 1 Netgear Wireless Router 1 linksys-G wireless print server.I'm trying to have all 5 machines print to one HP printer. I have the printer wired to the print server. I got one machine to print to it. I tried the laptop and it said it could not find the Print server. DO i need to go into the Print server and configure something to tell it thats it's gonna be shared or what? If there is a "help you install wireless guide" out please point the way. Any help would be great.

Thanks
 
I think i might of found out the problem. I going to make sure the laptop is DHCP enabled and look at the ip and subnet mask's. I should've looked at that before.
 
I figured it out. The problem was that the XP firewall was enabled on the wireless connection on the laptop. With the firewall enabled it could not talk to the print server. I could ping it. But all communication was blocked. I hope disabling the Firewall won't cause a problem.

Thanks for all your help
 
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