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fordee9r

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    How do you share a printer between XP & 7?
    « on: June 02, 2012, 02:46:38 PM »
    My desktop running Widows 7 is hooked to an Epson NX300 USB printer. My wife's desktop is on Windows XP. Both are hooked to the internet through a wireless LAN.

    I tried through the control panel to implement printer sharing but can't get it to work. Are these 2 O.S. compatible for printer sharing? Am I missing something? Any help would be appreciated.
    « Last Edit: June 02, 2012, 03:24:25 PM by fordee9r »
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    Re: How do you share a printer between XP & 7?
    « Reply #1 on: June 02, 2012, 05:17:29 PM »
    File and Print sharing needs to be enabled under the Administrator settings...
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      Re: How do you share a printer between XP & 7?
      « Reply #2 on: June 03, 2012, 10:23:22 PM »
      Thanks much for your reply! I thought that since both computers were set up with single users that it was automatically in administrator mode. Apparently I'm wrong and not sure how to get there...............
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