Using a printer on a wireless network

I have tried to set up a small home network to use the main PC printer. My
sons laptop appears in the network connections, internet gateway, but my
laptop doesn't! The 2 laptops are on xp home sp2 the main PC is on XP pro sp1.

"AndyH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I have tried to set up a small home network to use the main PC printer. My
> sons laptop appears in the network connections, internet gateway, but my
> laptop doesn't! The 2 laptops are on xp home sp2 the main PC is on XP pro
> sp1.

Have you run the Windows Network Setup Wizard on it? This has to be done on
all machines that wish to participate in a network. Make sure to use the
same Workgroup name on all machines.

Hi Kevin, thanks for that, it worked a treat, all comps and printers now
talking to each other.
Again many thanks
Andy H

"Kevin" wrote:

>
> "AndyH" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:1EED5F3D-8D76-4DD0-92E6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I have tried to set up a small home network to use the main PC printer. My
> > sons laptop appears in the network connections, internet gateway, but my
> > laptop doesn't! The 2 laptops are on xp home sp2 the main PC is on XP pro
> > sp1.
>
> Have you run the Windows Network Setup Wizard on it? This has to be done on
> all machines that wish to participate in a network. Make sure to use the
> same Workgroup name on all machines.
>
>
>