i have tried and tried to get my printer to work from my laptop but fail each time. Both are sharing, but my laptop does not see my printer. I have a linksys wrt54 gl wireles router with a desk top dell unit and a canon printer hooked to the dell. I have read and read and tried and tried to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
Crossworx
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barney789 9 Newbie Poster
what is is your laptop running? If it is vista, you will have a hard time seeing it on the desktop if the desktop is running xp. The reason for this is because vista is not backwards compatible. The only way I could get my vista to use a shared printer is by installing a third party software. The software was network magic. Does the printer have wireless printing capabilities? If so install the drivers needed and print that way.
crossworx 0 Newbie Poster
desk top and laptop are XP and printer does not have wireless ability. What is strange it used to work a year or so ago.
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