Problems with Linksys Wireless Router and Printer Sharing
This is a discussion about Problems with Linksys Wireless Router and Printer Sharing in the Windows Hardware category; Hi All, Hopefully someone can help with this frustrating problem I am having with printer sharing only. I just went from a wired home network to wireless with Linksys WRT54G. I have 2 desktop computers and 1 notebook computer that were all sharing the same printer hooked up to my main Desktop computer.
Hi All,
Hopefully someone can help with this frustrating problem I am having with printer sharing only.
I just went from a wired home network to wireless with Linksys WRT54G. I have 2 desktop computers and 1 notebook computer that were all sharing the same printer hooked up to my main Desktop computer. Since installing the wireless router they no longer will share that printer. When I try to set up a new printer connection on the other 2 computers that I want to share the printer with it recognizes the printer on the network but when I select that printer and then it makes you type in the name of that printer which I call it "main" I continually get an error message stating that the printer has either been disconnected from the server or that the name of the printer is incorrect. I am told it is a file sharing problem and linksys of course refuses to support this even though it was working on the wired network.
Any suggestions?
Your help would be appreciated. The printer is a HP G85 all in one printer/copier/scanner/fax
Hopefully someone can help with this frustrating problem I am having with printer sharing only.
I just went from a wired home network to wireless with Linksys WRT54G. I have 2 desktop computers and 1 notebook computer that were all sharing the same printer hooked up to my main Desktop computer. Since installing the wireless router they no longer will share that printer. When I try to set up a new printer connection on the other 2 computers that I want to share the printer with it recognizes the printer on the network but when I select that printer and then it makes you type in the name of that printer which I call it "main" I continually get an error message stating that the printer has either been disconnected from the server or that the name of the printer is incorrect. I am told it is a file sharing problem and linksys of course refuses to support this even though it was working on the wired network.
Any suggestions?
Your help would be appreciated. The printer is a HP G85 all in one printer/copier/scanner/fax
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Try the following link.
http://www.campinghounds.com/links/Networking%20HP%20G85%20Printer/index.php
http://www.campinghounds.com/links/Networking%20HP%20G85%20Printer/index.php
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Hi I sent you an email but my problem I find now is not just with printer sharing but file sharing also.. Is there maybe a setting in the router?
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