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by zmichael

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Computer "A" is on WinMe; Computer "B" is on Win98SE.
LinkSys network connects them as peers; it works fine for both accessing internet.
"A" has a USB-attached printer. "B" wants to use that printer also. During process of configuring that printer as a "network-accessible" printer it declared itself as "being set to off-line" (!). Later, while trying, from "B", to capture print port, I find that computer "A" has become "inaccessible", though it can be found (>Start>Find>Computers).
Please help to make "A" accesible to "B" (which would presumably also set the printer to "online".

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by bincarnato

Make sure that both computers are actually logged on. Click on start and then shutdown and log off XYZ. Then log back on.

by krunch

Since this is just peer to peer you need to enable "Windows file and print sharing" by right clicking on Network Neighborhood, then properties, then Add Service/Microsoft/Microsoft File and Print Sharing and you'll do that on both machines. Re-bootand make sure you share off your printer and you should be good to go.

Cheers,

Krunch

by zmichael

First had to disable the "File and Print Sharing" button in Network Neighborhoods>Properties, since only one protocol allowed. Then did what you suggested. Result: Computer "B" could not even find "A", let alone access it, nor vice versa. I then re-enabled the File and Print Share Button. Now "A" can find "B", but not access it, but not vice versa. I am worse off than before: Then "B" could at least find "A". How to undo the changes made?

by zmichael

I guess I must be foolhardy to march straight into installing
the Home Network Wizard (HNW) on top of existing, albeit imperfect configurations. First thing after installing HNW I found that my connection to the internet was no longer functioning. That was totally unacceptable, however useful the rest of HNW might be. Indeed, it may work very well when starting with a pristine system. Anyway, blessing WinMe's Restore function I got my system back to the way I described it in my original question. I would appreciate any help in addressing the "inaccessibility" of computer "A" from computer "B". But no grand "new" installation schemes, please, at least not yet.
Do I hear a suggestion of "ping "A" from "B" and what would that tell(step by step, please)?

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