Printer Sharing

[cchahn]

I'm not a tech type by no means, but I am trying to help out a friend because I do understand computers and networks more than he. He is connected to his office from him home network via VPN. There are three computers at home, two of which are on the work domain. The third is a laptop (JMD-W007)which is not part of the domain. I want the laptop to be able to print to a printer connected to one of the PCs (JMD-W004)at home. JMD-W004 can see JMD-W007 in windows explorer under the Workgroup, but JMD-W007 can not see JMD-W004 in the Workgroup. I'm thinking if I can correct this then I should be able to connect JMD-W007 to JMD-W004's locally connected printer which is shared. Thanks for whatever advice you can give to this novice.

 

[gacollier]

cch,

Even though laptop (JMD-W007) isn't part of the domain, make it's workgroup the same as the domain name for PC JMD-W004. Now on the laptop (JMD-W007), hit "Start" then in the run area type \\JMD-W004 and hit "Run". If you get a username/password prompt use a valid username that has print permissions on JMD-W004 by using the syntax domain/user in the user slot (i.e. JMD/Bob), and password in the password slot. Let me know what happens.