Wireless printing help

[Ellen]

Hi everyone,

I was hoping someone here may be able to help me....

I have a laptop that connects to the main computer just through wireless (using a router?)... In the past I used to have it set up so that I could print off the main computers printer through the wireless, but I cant for the life of me work it out at the moment! (I restarted my computer a while ago and lost all the settings then...)

I have tried the wizards on each computer and can't make it work. Any ideas on what I could do?? Its such a pain having to either use the other computer or use a USB when I need to print something....

thanks in advance!
Ellen

[kittycann]

My hubby is a computer tech.... what operating system (eg XP, Me) are you using? Can you access the hard drive of the main computer thats connected to the printer?

[Ellen]

Thanks for the reply! I'm using xp, and yes I can access hard drive of the other computer.....

[Kym]

Is usually that the printer is not shared or the permissions for 'Everybody' are not set correctly.
Start > Printers & faxes > Right Click the Printer > Properties > Sharing tab
and check that it is shared.