printer headache

Ihave a dell laptop with xp pro and a dell home computer with xp home and my
wireless is netgear (wgr614) and its not sharing ,I understand it might be
the two dont go well but i was also told that it wasnt the netgear .please
help all i need to do is to get the docs from my laptop to my printer on my
home dell.

barkleybassman wrote:

> Ihave a dell laptop with xp pro and a dell home computer with xp home
> and my wireless is netgear (wgr614) and its not sharing ,I understand
> it might be the two dont go well but i was also told that it wasnt the
> netgear .please help all i need to do is to get the docs from my
> laptop to my printer on my home dell.

Since you haven't told us any error messages or what happens when you
try ("its not sharing" isn't very descriptive), I can only give you
this general answer:

This is most commonly caused by a misconfigured firewall. Run the
Network Setup Wizard on both computers, making sure to enable File &
Printer Sharing, and reboot. The only "gotcha" is that this will turn
on the XPSP2 Windows Firewall. If you aren't running a third-party
firewall or have an antivirus with "Internet Worm Protection" (like
Norton 2005/06) which acts as a firewall, then you're fine. If you have
third-party firewall software, configure it to allow the Local Area
Network traffic as trusted. I usually do this with my firewalls with an
IP range. Ex. would be 192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you would
substitute your correct subnet.

If one or more of the computers is XP Pro:

a. If you need Pro's ability to set fine-grained permissions, turn off
Simple File Sharing (Folder Options>View tab) and create identical user
accounts/passwords on all computers.

b. If you don't care about using Pro's advanced features, leave the
Simple File Sharing enabled.

Simple File Sharing means that Guest (network) is enabled. This means
that anyone without a user account on the target system can use its
resources. This is a security hole but only you can decide if it
matters in your situation.

Then create shares as desired. XP Home does not permit sharing of users'
home directories (My Documents) or Program Files, but you can share
folders inside those directories. A better choice is to simply use the
Shared Documents folder.

If that doesn't work for you, here is an excellent network
troubleshooter by MVP Hans-Georg Michna. Take the time to go through it
and it will usually pinpoint the problem area(s) -
http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm

Malke
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Diamontina Cocktail wrote:

>
> "barkleybassman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message news:4453FC3E-3F4A-4B24-9014-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Ihave a dell laptop with xp pro and a dell home computer with xp home
>> and my
>> wireless is netgear (wgr614) and its not sharing ,I understand it
>> might be the two dont go well but i was also told that it wasnt the
>> netgear .please help all i need to do is to get the docs from my
>> laptop to my printer on my
>> home dell.
>
> Go to the firewall under control panel and add these exceptions to it:
>
> 139 TCP
> 445 TCP
> 137 UDP
> 138 UDP
>
> Do that on both machines. Make sure the shares ARE shared at each
> computer. Away you go!

But the OP shouldn't need to do that. I have never manually opened those
ports in a firewall on the lan side at any time - on my network or
clients' networks and I've been setting up networks for many years. It
is more likely that either 1) the OP has a third-party firewall in
place that s/he doesn't know about; 2) Simple Sharing is disabled on
the XP Pro box and identical user accounts/passwords weren't set up.

Malke
--
Elephant Boy Computers
www.elephantboycomputers.com
"Don't Panic!"
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User