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by greg_thornton

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I was wondering if anyone could help me out...At home, we have two computers both running XP. We have one printer hooked up locally to one computer and we would like to know if there is a way to share the printer and other files easily without turning the built-in firewall on and off everytime we want to share something. I know some people will just say to leave the firewall off, but is there an easy way to configure the two systems to share resources?

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by bazz00

If you go into My Computer there should be folder named Shared Files (or something similar) situated above the system drives just right click it and select propertied and then go to sharing and select the box that allows the sharing of files int hisfolder to be accessed across the network. Next just drag and drop any files etc to be shared into this folder.

For the printer if you right click the printer and then select sharing you can share it across the network. This is to be done on the machine that the printer is connected to.
Then on the other machine install a new printer and in the setup wizard choose to install a network printer and put in the ip address of the other machine connected to the printer (right click network places - properties - right click Local area connection - right click TCP/IP - properties and it will show you the ip address x.x.x.x). Also make sure that File + Printer sharing and Microsoft client for networks are installed on the local network adapter of both machines (before right clicking TCP/IP as in the steps above for finding the ip address)

Hope this helps

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