Thread: Help me print from my lap top please

you need to enable printer sharing on your desk top first to enable other mchines on the network to see that printer. then find new network printer on your laptop, then load drivers etc and away you go.
gl

oh! p.s. the multi function will only work as a printer across network. no scanning etc.

It is pretty much as simple as plugging in the CD, if you're using XP, control panel, printers and faxes, add new printer, network printer.

There is a browse to option and just click stuff until you find it.

It also helps if you know the IP address of the printer, again, easy way is to print out the main info page for the printer, maybe hold down a printer button on start up? That should have the IP address in it. Once you have the IP address you know where to look if the computer doesn't find it automatically.

I recently had a problem with my network printer, where it just disappeared. Turned out it was getting an IP address from the router via DHCP and for some reason when the lease expired it changed the IP address. To fix it you browse, in IE or Firefox, to the current IP address of the printer, somewhere in the setup page should be a spot to change from DHCP to a fixed IP, all you need to do is type in the current IP the printer uses, and then it is a permanent setting.

Hate setting up routers on cable. Heartbeat, or whatever it's called now, yuk.

Cheers
Simon

Originally Posted by Rosscoe68

you need to enable printer sharing on your desk top first to enable other mchines on the network to see that printer. then find new network printer on your laptop, then load drivers etc and away you go.
gl

Thats correct - on your desktop, right click the printer & there should be a "sharing" option for it. Enable the sharing on it, it will be given a share name, this will be the name to connect to on the network. like this:

\\desktoppc\printer


Once it shared on the laptop go to add a new printer & chose the option of a network printer. Type in the address like I did above. "\\desktoppc\cannon"
Or you can browse - will just take awhile
When it find it it will either copy the driver from the desktop or ask you for the driver disc. install drivers & done but remember you need your desktop PC to be turned on to print.. not logged in - just turned on

Also make sure you can access shared files on the desktop pc - if not you may run in to a security issue trying to access the shared printer.
so try sharing out your "C" drive first & connect to it with the laptop by going to start - then run & typing \\desktoppc\c drive (or what ever you call the share)

Good luck!!

oh this is from microsoft explaining how to share a printer http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...utt_july2.mspx

and as for a router - any normal "router" will work, a combo router for adsl wont. I have a netgear router with wireless access point built in. I think it rocks & trust netgear stuff - plus its easy to setup.

From the cable modem you plug the network cable in to the WAN (Wide area network port) and the cable modem will then give that port on the router an IP address. So any router will work as this is how routers work anyway

Thanks guys, very much appreciated, will give it a crack tonight and see if I can get it to work. Thanks

Mick;

Here is also a Link to Microsoft website on "How to" of Printer sharing using Windows XP.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...utt_july2.mspx

EDIT - wrong, wrong, wrong. Well the stuff about MAC addresses from wiki is good, but the heartbeat stuff is way out of date.

For the router, if the heartbeat stuff is still the go, you will need a router that says cable on it.

Optus cable does now, and Bigpond cable used to, probably still does, have a system where the base bit of the cable sends a call out to your bit of cable hardware every few minutes. It asks for the MAC address - wiki answer here - which is a permanent hardware serial number, like an IP address. If your bit of cable hardware doesn't send back the right MAC address you don't get any internet.

To get around this, the router manufacturers do a thing called MAC address spoofing - when the call comes in from Optus central your router tells it what it wants to hear.

So, you probably need a router with MAC address spoofing.

Which all means get one that says cable on the front.

Cheers
Simon

just a note - all up to date routers can do mac address masking... and shouldn't matter as you dont need a client for heartbeat secuirty anymore. Tel$tra used to but its caused problems.

So... Dlink, netgear, netcomm, linksys - all brands produce routers, a standard router will do your job

where to get one - go to MSY Technology Pty - look for the parts listing & go get one

This is my one here: http://www.netgear.com/Products/Rout...rs/WGR614.aspx