Computer Hope

Hardware => Hardware => Topic started by: fordee9r on June 02, 2012, 02:46:38 PM

Title: How do you share a printer between XP & 7?
Post by: fordee9r 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.

Title: Re: How do you share a printer between XP & 7?
Post by: patio on June 02, 2012, 05:17:29 PM

File and Print sharing needs to be enabled under the Administrator settings...

Title: Re: How do you share a printer between XP & 7?
Post by: fordee9r 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...............