Wireless printing help

slik

slik

New Member
Bought a new Dell AIO printer with the wireless card.
Managed to get it to work - wirelessly - with my desktop.
But I can't seem to get any of the laptops in the house to find
it on the network.
I disabled the Windows XP firewall, on both the desktop and the laptops, and set the printer for "sharing" and "bi-directional".
I'm running a McAfee firewall on the desktop also - do I need to do something with that ?
When I try and "add the printer" to the laptops it doesn't find it.
Any suggestions ?
It's driving me nuts !!
 
sparkyaclown

sparkyaclown

Active Member
If the printer is hooked into the wireless network you shouldn't need to share it from your desktop. Did you have to install any software on your desktop when you were setting up the printer? It is possible you may need it on your laptops also. You could also try putting the IP address of the printer into the connect to box of the printer wizard. If you go this route you'll most likely want to reconfigure your printer with a static IP address if it is not already.
 
C

chess

Guest
sparkyaclown said:
If the printer is hooked into the wireless network you shouldn't need to share it from your desktop. Did you have to install any software on your desktop when you were setting up the printer? It is possible you may need it on your laptops also. You could also try putting the IP address of the printer into the connect to box of the printer wizard. If you go this route you'll most likely want to reconfigure your printer with a static IP address if it is not already.
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Sparky brings up a good point...

obviously its probably a 192.168.1.x address.. make that printer a static ip... of say like 192.168.1.100 so you can easily just go ahead and add the printer via the wizard or what not.

Also as long as your running xp, it should find the printer with drivers... shouldnt be an issue... you can turn off all firewall products and try that way as well....


your router acts as a firewall.. so many people are worried these days about viruses and crap, when people simply are running 2-3 firewalls... the windows ICW is garbage and so is macafee... just use your own router as a firewall ;)
 
itsbob

itsbob

I bowl overhand
I was under the understanding that it's NOT a good idea to do AIO printers wirelessly.. And if it is an AIO that you want to do wirelessly I'd bet there is software that has to be installed on all computers that want to use it, and it won't recogize it until you do the install.
 
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