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Update - Connecting Printer to Multiple PCs ?? Solved

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seamorton

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Bit of an update to all that responded to my request. After spending most of the afternoon an evening trying to incorporate the information received. It has dawned on me that everybody that responded was exactly correct. First thing I have to do is to enable file & printer sharing on the PCs while trying to setup the wireless setting on the Printer.

I've obtained the Wireless Network Settings from the DSL Verison Action Tec router. However the passwords I've been using, does not respond to the Printer's Setup Wizard at this time.

Now have a better understanding, I think, of what needs to be done. With that said ... Thank you all for providing the insight. SM
 
We're glad you got this fixed but, as SKORPI0 pointed out, you should update your existing thread rather than start a new one. That helps people who may be looking for similar help in the future see that the suggested fixes work.

Take Care,
AT Moderator ElFenix
 
Just a note - "File and Printer Sharing", has no direct relevance on getting a wirelessly-networked printer working on your LAN. That's more for sharing a USB- or parallel-connected printer, over your PC's LAN connection, to other PCs on your LAN.

A "wireless-enabled Printer", does effectively its own sharing, and all of the PCs just need printer drivers, and the printer itself along with the drivers on each PC, manages the sharing / arbitration between jobs from different PCs. You can do that even without setting up "File and Printer Sharing". (I think.)
 
Basically, with File and Printer Sharing, you take a directly connected printer, and then that PC becomes like the "Master" or "controller" of that printer, and then you choose to share it over the LAN with File and Printer Sharing, and then Windows' arbitrates which PCs can access it. A wireless-enabled printer can and will do that by itself. No need, after installation, to then manually "Share" that printer with the LAN, that becomes somewhat redundant. (Although, I think it's possible.)
 
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