Start at the computer that physically has the printer attached. Go to My Computer, Open Control Panel, Go to Printers and Other Hardware. View installed Printers. Once you see your printer there, Right click on it and choose sharing. Click "Shared as" and call it something you can remember easily, maybe the model of the printer, whatever. Click OK
You should see a hand underneath the printer icon, underneath the printer now, indicating it is being shared.
Now go to your other computer. Install the printer driver for this printer on this computer. Now go to the "add printer" utility & choose networked printer rather than local. You will most likely need the IP address of the computer that has the printer attached to it, if you can not see it through the browse feature.
Once you can "see" the printer you should be able to print to it from either computer.
NOTE: for this to work properly, both computers must belong to the same workgroup, default is MSHOME.
Also if you have any firewalls installed, such as ZoneAlarm, you will have to create a new rule in the firewall to allow access from the ip address of the computer that wishes to access the printer.
2006-12-08 14:20:11
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answered by gnobody 3
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The computer with the printer needs to "share" it. Click on Start, then Help. Look in the printing section and find the instructions on network printing.
2006-12-08 14:10:28
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answered by John's Secret Identity™ 6
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2 ways you can accomplish this. Email the file so you can access the file on your computer with the printer and print it out.
Another way to do this is to daily chain link the 2 computers together. Most printer have more than one port,try using a USB cable to hook the printer up to computer 2,if they are in separate rooms,transfer the file to a disk,and/or email it so you can access the file and simply print it out.
2006-12-08 14:05:53
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answered by Dfirefox 6
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you opt for the printer of their host computing device as a community printer and named, then you run from the CD or community the setup to percentage printer and information and also you intranet, then you run the setup in the different computing device as a shopper.
2016-11-25 00:08:09
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answered by Anonymous
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Need more details
2016-07-28 05:33:10
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answered by ? 4
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The same question comes up again
2016-08-23 12:27:33
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answered by afton 4
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1st poster got it, but I think you need to have them networked together.
2006-12-08 14:07:01
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answered by nanabarbaracline 1
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Thankyou everyone for all the answers.
2016-09-20 00:55:56
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answered by ? 4
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