XP Printer Sharing?

[Jeff H]

Guys,

I just finished building a new system, as my main setup. It has a Canon Pixma 5000 printer connected. OS is XP Pro-SP2. I set the printer up to be shared, and went to my other system (XP Pro SP1a) to set up sharing on that printer. I ran the Network Wizard to enable printer sharing, yet the other computer can't see the printer on the network. FWIW this printer was shared on my previous setup, which was XP Pro SP1a.

The new system uses the nVidia firewall, if that make any difference. Any ideas on why I can't see the shared printer on the other system?

TIA,

Jeff

 

[timswim78]

The firewall is quite possibly the culprit. Try disabling it .

 

[Jeff H]

timswim78, it looks like the nVidia firewall uses a combination of both itself and the XP SP2 Windwos firewall. I disabled the Windows firewall, but not the nVidia one. I'll do that and see what happens.

Thanks for the reply,

Jeff