Printing problems...

OK...I know this should be easy and I'm sure it's something simple, but I
just can't get it.......

I have a wireless network set up at home with two PC's. One has XP and the
other has 2000. My work laptop has XP Pro.

Each PC on my home network has it's own printer and they can successfully
print on either of the printers.

Now, when I bring my work laptop home, it instantly finds the home wireless
network, but I cannot figure out how to get my work laptop to print on either
of the two home printers.

I've gone through the "add a printer" wizard on the work laptop and when it
searches for network printers while I'm on the home wireless network, it
brings up the name of each of the home PC's, but will NOT show either of the
home printers. I've designated each printer to as a 'shared' printer, but
the setup wizard can't seem to find them.

What am I doing wrong???? Thank you!

SRS wrote:

> OK...I know this should be easy and I'm sure it's something simple,
> but I just can't get it.......
>
> I have a wireless network set up at home with two PC's. One has XP
> and the
> other has 2000. My work laptop has XP Pro.
>
> Each PC on my home network has it's own printer and they can
> successfully print on either of the printers.
>
> Now, when I bring my work laptop home, it instantly finds the home
> wireless network, but I cannot figure out how to get my work laptop to
> print on either of the two home printers.
>
> I've gone through the "add a printer" wizard on the work laptop and
> when it searches for network printers while I'm on the home wireless
> network, it brings up the name of each of the home PC's, but will NOT
> show either of the
> home printers. I've designated each printer to as a 'shared' printer,
> but the setup wizard can't seem to find them.
>

Is the work laptop on a domain at the office network?

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

Yes it is.

"Malke" wrote:

> SRS wrote:
>
> > OK...I know this should be easy and I'm sure it's something simple,
> > but I just can't get it.......
> >
> > I have a wireless network set up at home with two PC's. One has XP
> > and the
> > other has 2000. My work laptop has XP Pro.
> >
> > Each PC on my home network has it's own printer and they can
> > successfully print on either of the printers.
> >
> > Now, when I bring my work laptop home, it instantly finds the home
> > wireless network, but I cannot figure out how to get my work laptop to
> > print on either of the two home printers.
> >
> > I've gone through the "add a printer" wizard on the work laptop and
> > when it searches for network printers while I'm on the home wireless
> > network, it brings up the name of each of the home PC's, but will NOT
> > show either of the
> > home printers. I've designated each printer to as a 'shared' printer,
> > but the setup wizard can't seem to find them.
> >
>
> Is the work laptop on a domain at the office network?
>
> Malke
> --
> Elephant Boy Computers
> www.elephantboycomputers.com
> "Don't Panic!"
> MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
>

SRS wrote:

> Yes it is.
>
> "Malke" wrote:
>
>> SRS wrote:
>>
>> > OK...I know this should be easy and I'm sure it's something simple,
>> > but I just can't get it.......
>> >
>> > I have a wireless network set up at home with two PC's. One has XP
>> > and the
>> > other has 2000. My work laptop has XP Pro.

Here is information about how to use your domain-member computer in your
home Workgroup network.

Credit to MVP Lanwench:

Note - you don't need to change to a workgroup just to access resources
on it. You shouldn't play with your laptop's network settings at all.
Once you've logged in using your domain account (using cached
credentials), and have an IP address on the home network, you can map
drives, use printers, whatnot, very easily - one way, in a command
line:

net use x: \\computername\sharename /user:computername\username <enter>

Also see:
MS KB article about the Net Use command - http://tinyurl.com/3bpnj

Managing One Windows XP-based Laptop for the Office and Home by MVP
Charlie Russel
http://tinyurl.com/cpy9q

http://winhlp.com/wxdomainworkgroup.htm - MVP Hans-Georg Michna

If this looks like it will be too much trouble for you, put the
documents you want to print on a usb key and print from one of the
Workgroup computers.

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