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Skriven 2006-11-18 15:23:00 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JEFF GUERDAT
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Thanks a heap Jeff. I shall follow your defined procedure and get her
set up.

As Jean is fond of saying, I get so much benefit from this conference.
Actually I get far more than I give. Thanks to all.

Jay

JG> JE> Help!  My daughter has 3 XP desktops (two kids) and one XP laptop and
JG> JE> one all in one HP printer on one Desk top and another printer on
another
JG> JE> desk top.

JG>For simplicity's sake, it would work best to put the printers on one
computer. 
JG>However, having them separated doesn't change the setup much.

JG>First, set any firewalls to trust the local subnet (very important). From
the
JG>Printers control panel, share the printer and give it a name that folks can
use
JG>to identify it.  On any of the other computers, there's a few ways to do it.

JG>One would be to browse to the computer and double-click on the printer
that's
JG>shared.  That will set things up and make it available - no print drivers to
JG>load other than on the original machine.  Another way is to check the Folder
JG>Options control panel (or Tools, Options from any Explorer window) for the
JG>ability to "Automatically search for network folders and printers".  To do
JG>this, once in Folder Options, click on the View tab and look at the first
entry
JG>in the Advanced settings section.  There's also other ways to do the same
thing
JG>such as the Add Printer icon of the Printers control panel but I prefer to
do
JG>the first method.

JG>If you have Simple File Sharing enabled (look at the bottom of the Advanced
JG>settings where you'd look for the automatic search for folders and printers
JG>above), that should be all you need.  If you don't have that set you'll need
to
JG>create an account on each machine with all possible usernames and passwords.

JG>The last thing is that the machine that has the printer(s) must be on or
JG>otherwise set up to respond to network print jobs.  Leaving a computer on is
an
JG>obvious solution but most folks don't do that.  I have my desktop set to
JG>suspend but to invoke Wake On Lan so access to files and printers is still
JG>available.  It wakes up and is ready in ~10 seconds so you notice a bit of
JG>delay but not much.  To use Wake On Lan your BIOS must support it and you
must
JG>set the NIC power settings to allow this. To set the power setting, go to
JG>Device Manager and get properties on the NIC.  Click on the Power Management
JG>tab (if it's not there, yer hosed) and check the "Allow this device to bring
JG>the computer out of standby" check box.  I also have the first check box
JG>checked but I think that's by default.  Now the computer will monitor
network
JG>events and will start up while suspended or hibernated (suspend has faster
JG>response).

JG>Obviously, it all depends on how one chooses to set things up as to whether
all
JG>of these steps are needed.  Experiment...

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