Hardware

Ask something
Question Locked

Home Network woes

0 helpful
6 replies

by allan_day9

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

Hi
I'm sure someone knows how so here goes:
I have three laptops on a wireless network and one of them, which I shall call the primary, running XP SP2 and has a USB printer (HP 2610) and a USB external hard drive attached via a powered hub. What I need to know is: how can I access the printer and the hard drive from the other two PCs which run Vista?
A step by step would be greatly appreciated.
I manged to secure my WiFi OK via MAC address filtering and WEP encryption but accessing the printer and hard drive has me beat. :-)
Regards Allan.

6 replies

by oh smeg

If the Vista NB are being picked up by the WiFi access point you should be able to share the printer and External HDD but with a proviso here. Vista doesn't like connecting to something that it doesn't have control of so you may need to connect the printer & external HDD to a Vista Computer and use that to share from.

Contact the Original Equipment Supplier for the correct way to make this work as they have to provide support for both their products and the M$ Product/s.

Col

by xerxes612

Share out the Hard Drive and Printer by right clicking on c: drive and the printer and selecting properties, click on the sharing tab, select share this folder or share this printer, name it and that part is done. Then figure out the IP address that the computer is using. To do this just click start, run, type cmd and hit enter - brings you to a command prompt - then type ipconfig. From vista computer, click on the new start thing and click on run and type \\10.20.30.40 subplanting your ip for the ip i put above and it should show both the hard drive and the printer. Just doubleclick on them to use them.

by allan_day9

Hi Xerxes
I tried your suggestion but fell over at a firewall. vista said that its firewall was configured ok but the remote pc may not be, add port tcp 445 to the exeption list. So I tried to and XP said that that port was already configured.
Regards Allan

This discussion is closed to new replies.