network printer

[thomas connery]

hi, i have setup a network printer, pc running xp home. printer connected to. laptop vista wireless, in add a printer ,laptop, copied printer from pc all drivers installed you can see printer on laptop with shared. then when i go to print nothing is printing from laptop main pc. does anyone know what is wrong are what i need to do. i had to setup again as i had to do a clean install. iam running avg 9.0 checked the firewall and allowed file and printer sharing.

thanks tom

[Guilbert53]

It is not really a "network printer" more a shared printer.

With this set up, the PC the printer is actually plugged in to has to be on, if you print from another PC.

I have this setup with two Vista computers at home (printer installed on one and shared to another) and it works fine.

It gues it must be a setup problem.

Search the Windows help for "sharing a printer" and see if you have set it up right.

[headache56]

If you look at the installed printer icon goining through Start->Control Panel-> Printers, does the printer show as "ready" ? if not, can you investigate from there ?

Any possibility that you have a conflict if you are connected to the printer simultaneously via (i) wifi and / or an (ii) an ethernet cable and / or (iii) a USB lead ?

Can you print from all other connected PCs apart from the "main-laptop" ?

[thomas connery]

hi, thanks all got it sorted ir was avg firewall was blocking.

tom