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Vista, wireless networking, and printer sharing



File and printer sharing is enabled on both computers.  The windows
firewall is not currently running on her machine.

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On 5/16/07, Allyn <amalventano1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Make sure enable file and printer sharing enabled in network connection.
> Make sure file and printer sharing checked as an exception in windows firewall.
> HTH
> Al
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike Smith [mailto:smithma7@xxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 5:33 PM
> > To: car
> > Subject: OT: Vista, wireless networking, and printer sharing
> >
> > My wife just picked up a new laptop with Vista. I've got it
> > on the network with the wireless router, etc. She has access
> > to the net. I can see her computer from mine. She can't see
> > mine from hers. I set up the printer (HP 1210 PSC) on my USB
> > and it works. I've made it a share. But neither it nor my PC
> > are viewable via my wife's laptop.
> > What gives? Used to share this printer with no problems. Is
> > it a wireless thing (first time with wireless) or a Vista
> > thing (first time with Vista)? Or is it something else?
> >
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