Midnight Blue
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I have set up a network between my laptop running Vista and my destop running XP (which is plugged into the wireless router).
After a few problems, which I cured by turning off the windows firewall (my router is fully protected), I can wirelessly transfer stuff from the shared folder on the desktop to the laptop but I cannot connect to the printer, which is attached to the desktop. I just get 'access denied'.
I can see the printer driver and can open its properties from laptop and from that I have come to the conclusion that it is because 'everyone' can print but only the desktop administrator can manage the printer. I have tried to access security from the desktop but it does not have a 'security' tab.
When I ran the network wizard on the desktop(which I had to do to share the printer) it wanted me to make a network disk to install on other computers on the network which ran on different Windows systems. TBH I doubt I could find a floppy disk and it gave me no other option! Is this the root of my problem? As I said, I have no problem accessing the files, just not the printer!
I can continue to print by transferring files by memory stick or even carry the laptop upstairs and plug into the USB but .... I've started so I would like to finsh!!!
Cheers
After a few problems, which I cured by turning off the windows firewall (my router is fully protected), I can wirelessly transfer stuff from the shared folder on the desktop to the laptop but I cannot connect to the printer, which is attached to the desktop. I just get 'access denied'.
I can see the printer driver and can open its properties from laptop and from that I have come to the conclusion that it is because 'everyone' can print but only the desktop administrator can manage the printer. I have tried to access security from the desktop but it does not have a 'security' tab.
When I ran the network wizard on the desktop(which I had to do to share the printer) it wanted me to make a network disk to install on other computers on the network which ran on different Windows systems. TBH I doubt I could find a floppy disk and it gave me no other option! Is this the root of my problem? As I said, I have no problem accessing the files, just not the printer!
I can continue to print by transferring files by memory stick or even carry the laptop upstairs and plug into the USB but .... I've started so I would like to finsh!!!
Cheers