help! how do I share the printer linked with my desktop to the laptop i have wireless connected to my router?

Answer 1

Install the Printer to the PC if it isn't and share your printer by right clicking on the printer and selecting properties - Sharing

Then, from your laptop go to the add printer wizard and it shoud list this shared printer. Just select it and finish off the wizard.

Print a test page to see whether it works fine.

BYE

Answer 2

To share the printer, I opened the Printers and Faxes folder on the computer that was connected to my printer.

To open the Printers and Faxes folder

• Click Start and then click Control Panel.

• Click Printers and Other Hardware, and then click Printers and Faxes.

• In the Printers and Faxes folder, I clicked the printer's icon and, in the tasks pane, I clicked Share This Printer.

• I opened the printer's Properties dialog box, and clicked on the Sharing tab.

• I clicked Share Name, and then clicked OK.


That's it—the printer was immediately available for other computers to use.

Now that I had a network printer, I was ready to connect to it and print from other computers on the network.

To connect to the printer

• I opened Control Panel, and clicked Printers and Other Hardware.

• I clicked Add a Printer.

• Instead of adding a local printer, though, I clicked Printer Connection and then browsed the network for the printer.


The whole process took less than a minute before I was printing to the network printer as though it was connected to the computer.

Here is the link which you can refer
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000710.htm

Answer 3

You may want to consider getting a print server. This is another small box that connects to your router and allows your printer to be shared by any PC on your network. The really nice advantage of using a print server is that your printer is then just another node on your network, so it isn't actually connected to a PC, thus you don't even have to turn on your desktop PC to print from your laptop -- saves power.

Print servers come in either parallel or USB versions and cost anywhere from $40 to $80. I even picked up an older parallel Netgear one on Ebay for around $20. It works great.

Just google (or Yahoo! :-) for either USB print server or parallel print server. Netgear, DLink, Linksys and all the usual suspects make them.

Answer 4

Turn on your modem, router, desktop, laptop , and printer. Verify that the desktop and laptop does get on the internet. At the desktop, left click START-CONTROL PANEL-VIEW INSTALLED PRINTERS.
Right click the printer icon you wish to share. Left click sharing in the drop down menu. Left click radio button SHARE THIS PRINTER. Type in a name you want to refer to this printer on the network can be anything in reason. LEFT CLICK APPLY VERRRRRRRRRRRY INPORTANT. YOU SHOULD BE DONE GOOD LUCK
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