mecroneo
05-19-05, 20:01
okay, here I go,
Just recently I started working on a small project for a relative involving four brand new (original configuration) dell pcs. Everything seemed to be working just fine until I try to share a printer. Everything goes as planned on the computer that is sharing the printer. And then I jump over to the next computer and try to browse the network to look for the printer and I get an error message saying that I do not have the necessary privilages to do so. Next I share everything that I can possibly think of (hard drives, cd-roms, floppy drives, etc.) to see if the problem was just the printer. Of course, I cannot see anything on any of the three computers that are not sharing the printer (I do have file and printer sharing enabled on all four PCs) I do have SP2 installed on all four PCs, tried to disable the windows firewall... that didn't work.
-None of the three can see their own shared files or drives in My Network Places
-None of the three can ping the pc with the printer
-All can ping the router/switch (Linksys with wireless b/g)
-Do not have an available internet connection
-The PC with the printer can ping the others
Please tell me, what did I forget?
If I left anything important out please let me know(in a nice way) ;-)
Just recently I started working on a small project for a relative involving four brand new (original configuration) dell pcs. Everything seemed to be working just fine until I try to share a printer. Everything goes as planned on the computer that is sharing the printer. And then I jump over to the next computer and try to browse the network to look for the printer and I get an error message saying that I do not have the necessary privilages to do so. Next I share everything that I can possibly think of (hard drives, cd-roms, floppy drives, etc.) to see if the problem was just the printer. Of course, I cannot see anything on any of the three computers that are not sharing the printer (I do have file and printer sharing enabled on all four PCs) I do have SP2 installed on all four PCs, tried to disable the windows firewall... that didn't work.
-None of the three can see their own shared files or drives in My Network Places
-None of the three can ping the pc with the printer
-All can ping the router/switch (Linksys with wireless b/g)
-Do not have an available internet connection
-The PC with the printer can ping the others
Please tell me, what did I forget?
If I left anything important out please let me know(in a nice way) ;-)