Home network help

It was some while ago but one of the regulars here produced a helpful guide
to sharing printers on a Win XP home network. Was it Jeff Gaines? And would
they both still be around?

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:32:56 -0000
"DIYer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> It was some while ago but one of the regulars here produced a helpful
> guide to sharing printers on a Win XP home network. Was it Jeff
> Gaines? And would they both still be around?
>
>
Enable file and printer sharing. Share the printer. Add network
printer to other machines.
Make sure everyone has the same user name and password on each machine.
Disable the firewalls until you get it working.
Re-enable the firewalls and hope it still works.
Or something like that - I think there's a blood sacrifice, some sacred
herbs to burn and an incantation too.

"Rob Morley" wrote in message news:20120122212700.20a6f7e2@bluemoon...

On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:32:56 -0000
"DIYer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> It was some while ago but one of the regulars here produced a helpful
> guide to sharing printers on a Win XP home network. Was it Jeff
> Gaines? And would they both still be around?
>
>
Enable file and printer sharing. Share the printer. Add network
printer to other machines.
Make sure everyone has the same user name and password on each machine.
Disable the firewalls until you get it working.
Re-enable the firewalls and hope it still works.
Or something like that - I think there's a blood sacrifice, some sacred
herbs to burn and an incantation too.

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I think that last bit only applies to Linux installations ;-)

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:20:50 -0000
"Hermit" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>
> "Rob Morley" wrote in message
> news:20120122212700.20a6f7e2@bluemoon...
>
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:32:56 -0000
> "DIYer" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> > It was some while ago but one of the regulars here produced a
> > helpful guide to sharing printers on a Win XP home network. Was it
> > Jeff Gaines? And would they both still be around?
> >
> >
> Enable file and printer sharing. Share the printer. Add network
> printer to other machines.
> Make sure everyone has the same user name and password on each
> machine. Disable the firewalls until you get it working.
> Re-enable the firewalls and hope it still works.
> Or something like that - I think there's a blood sacrifice, some
> sacred herbs to burn and an incantation too.
>
> ================================================== ============
>
>
> I think that last bit only applies to Linux installations ;-)
>
>
>
No, IME they generally go without a hitch, it's the Windows stuff that
often seems to need mysterious tweaks and sometimes just doesn't work
for no discernible reason.

On 23/01/2012 17:30, Rob Morley wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:20:50 -0000
> "Hermit"<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> "Rob Morley" wrote in message
>> news:20120122212700.20a6f7e2@bluemoon...
>>
>> On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:32:56 -0000
>> "DIYer"<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>> It was some while ago but one of the regulars here produced a
>>> helpful guide to sharing printers on a Win XP home network. Was it
>>> Jeff Gaines? And would they both still be around?
>>>
>>>
>> Enable file and printer sharing. Share the printer. Add network
>> printer to other machines.
>> Make sure everyone has the same user name and password on each
>> machine. Disable the firewalls until you get it working.
>> Re-enable the firewalls and hope it still works.
>> Or something like that - I think there's a blood sacrifice, some
>> sacred herbs to burn and an incantation too.
>>
>> ================================================== ============
>>
>>
>> I think that last bit only applies to Linux installations ;-)
>>
>>
>>
> No, IME they generally go without a hitch, it's the Windows stuff that
> often seems to need mysterious tweaks and sometimes just doesn't work
> for no discernible reason.
>

If that is Windows 7, make sure that the printer name is no more than 8
alpha numerical characters. It seems that Win 7 has dropped back to DOS
as far as printers are concerned.

--
Howard Neil