Networking My Printer

I'm confused with trying to Network my printer.

I work from home, and work supply me with a HP Officejet 4315, my Acer Laptop running Citrix to connect to woirk servers, Netgear Wireless Router, and Broadband. (Wireless connectivity on the Acer laptop is rubbish, so I hardwire into the router when i work from my desk.)

Printing from my Citrix desktop fails, and in order to allow me and the family share the printer, I have installed it on the Home PC which is also connected by wire to the wireless router, and shares the broadband connection.

My wife uses internet on her laptop by wireless connection via the router.

Both laptops and the home pc are on XP.

Ideally, i would both laptops whether connected to the router by wireless or wire to find and use the printer.

My boss told me that from my laptop it was easy to find the printer on the home pc on 'the network'. so far I have failed to find it.

Where can I find an idiots guide that will take me by the hand to help me get set up easily?

 

Thank you for the reply.

In trying to set up a "home network" with a flash drive, the first instruction is to plug the flash drive into my wireless access point, and there is a picture showing a wireless router. However, my router has no USB point so I cannot proceed.

Any instruction on this needs to be completely idiot proof for me to follow.

 

Here is a link to a Microsoft procedure for setting up home networks.
This link takes you to Part 1 of a series of articles but what you are interested in, and what TimW was referring to, starts in Part 6.
You should not need any of the proceeding Parts and once you have set up the network, Parts 7 and 8 describe the procedure to share files, folders and printers.
You can find the succeeding Parts by scrolling to the bottom of each page and clicking on the MS article number in blue.
Hope this helps.

 

Everything failed, in fact, failed quite catastrophically.
When i tried to set my work laptop into the same workgroup as the home pc, I lost my connection to work servers. Not only that, i lost access to all my local work files in my local user account.
My home pc also never liked the changes and refused to connect to the internet.
Thank goodness for System Restore without it I would have been well and truly in a lot of trouble.
I think I might look for something else.

 

Firstly, your work PC is probably joined to your work domain, & changing that would definately cause you great problems connecting to work. Also, what could be an issue is that in order to print thru citrix, it may be an issue that THEY will need to install a print driver for your home printer on the citrix server. Citrix can be finicky like that.

 

I'm guessing that since it is a work laptop, your on a domain and now that you've joined a workgroup you destroyed your AD membership. Take the PC back to work and have it joined back on the domain.

I just saw some else has posted what I am about to say... darn

But What I have seen in Citrix is you have to have the printer connected to your PC (in some manner) and SET AS DEFAULT.. get out of all Citrix apps and have your IT person reset your connection in the "Citrix Managementt Console".. then it will (possibly) pick up the printer for you.

 

Thanks, I managed to recover with System restore, and I was able to connect and work today. It was a wee bit scary when it looked like everything had gone.

Citrix is a bit of an enigma. The printer was connected directly to my laptop, and despite me being able to see my printer on the network connected to my laptop, it would not print, yet I could print direct from my laptop. But i could print on another printer 200 miles away. My colleague down the road had the opposite; he could print from Citrix but not from his laptop on a seemingly identical setup.

 

I know we have people that login remotely to our citrix server & they are unable to print at their location if THEIR printer drivers aren't on the citrix server.

Example, we have 336 different drivers on our server here

 

I have the standard issue HP All-in-One that other remote network users can print from Citrix. There is word of a new Citrix 'box' coming soon that should sort out all our problems.

 

Did you try my 'solution' -