printing off home printer from laptop?

8 Nov 2006 10:43 PM

randypape

hello, i setup my printer for sharing from my desktop. i want to print from
my wireless connection through my laptop. when i try to add a new printer
with the computer name and printer name to my laptop, it says driver not
loaded on source computer . i know it is though because the printer works
fine. any ideas? also i have a security program like zonelabs that says i
should add the ip address from the laptop into the trusted zone of the
program. where do i locate the ip address of my laptop when i'm connected? i
have no problem doing the ipconfig on the desktop from a command prompt but
this doesn't work on my laptop, it doesn't show anything. thanks for any
help.. Randy

8 Nov 2006 11:59 PM

Malke

randypape wrote:

> hello, i setup my printer for sharing from my desktop. i want to print
> from my wireless connection through my laptop. when i try to add a new
> printer with the computer name and printer name to my laptop, it says
> driver not loaded on source computer . i know it is though because the
> printer works fine. any ideas? also i have a security program like
> zonelabs that says i should add the ip address from the laptop into
> the trusted zone of the program. where do i locate the ip address of
> my laptop when i'm connected? i have no problem doing the ipconfig on
> the desktop from a command prompt but this doesn't work on my laptop,
> it doesn't show anything. thanks for any help.. Randy

For the printer, install the printer on the laptop from either the cd
that came with the printer or download the installation program from
the printer mftr.'s website. Then you'll be able to add the printer to
the laptop through the Add Printer routine.

For the firewall, use an IP range for your subnet such as
192.168.1.0-192.168.1.254. Obviously you would substitute your correct
subnet.

Malke

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9 Nov 2006 6:59 AM

David Hettel

What OS is running on your laptop? What happens when you type ipconfig.exe
on the laptop? Sounds like you may have a problem on the laptop it should
show something, even if all it shows is it can't find the command.

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"randypape" <randyp***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4CA0BB14-CDAF-4F21-99B4-5CE4400F77B0@microsoft.com...
> hello, i setup my printer for sharing from my desktop. i want to print
> from
> my wireless connection through my laptop. when i try to add a new printer
> with the computer name and printer name to my laptop, it says driver not
> loaded on source computer . i know it is though because the printer works
> fine. any ideas? also i have a security program like zonelabs that says i
> should add the ip address from the laptop into the trusted zone of the
> program. where do i locate the ip address of my laptop when i'm connected?
> i
> have no problem doing the ipconfig on the desktop from a command prompt
> but
> this doesn't work on my laptop, it doesn't show anything. thanks for any
> help.. Randy

10 Nov 2006 12:04 AM

randypape

win xp and when i put in ipconfig in a command prompt window, nothing comes up
as far as ip addresses . how do i find my subnet #

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"David Hettel" wrote:

> What OS is running on your laptop? What happens when you type ipconfig.exe
> on the laptop? Sounds like you may have a problem on the laptop it should
> show something, even if all it shows is it can't find the command.
>
> --
> David Hettel
>
> Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group for everyone
> to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions addressed directly to me in
> E-mail or news groups.
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> "randypape" <randyp***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4CA0BB14-CDAF-4F21-99B4-5CE4400F77B0@microsoft.com...
> > hello, i setup my printer for sharing from my desktop. i want to print
> > from
> > my wireless connection through my laptop. when i try to add a new printer
> > with the computer name and printer name to my laptop, it says driver not
> > loaded on source computer . i know it is though because the printer works
> > fine. any ideas? also i have a security program like zonelabs that says i
> > should add the ip address from the laptop into the trusted zone of the
> > program. where do i locate the ip address of my laptop when i'm connected?
> > i
> > have no problem doing the ipconfig on the desktop from a command prompt
> > but
> > this doesn't work on my laptop, it doesn't show anything. thanks for any
> > help.. Randy
>
>
>

10 Nov 2006 3:41 AM

David Hettel

Normally you would use ipconfig.exe In theory you should have the same
subnet as any of the other computers in the network check one of them, I
would suggest that you try rebuilding the Winsock see this page;
http://www.soton.ac.uk/iss/computing/net/halls/winsock.html you may also
want to take a look at this page; http://winhlp.com/wxnet.htm

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> win xp and when i put in ipconfig in a command prompt window, nothing
> comes up
> as far as ip addresses . how do i find my subnet #
>
> "David Hettel" wrote:
>
>> What OS is running on your laptop? What happens when you type
>> ipconfig.exe
>> on the laptop? Sounds like you may have a problem on the laptop it should
>> show something, even if all it shows is it can't find the command.
>>
>> --
>> David Hettel
>>
>> Please post any reply as a follow-up message in the news group for
>> everyone
>> to see. I'm sorry, but I don't answer questions addressed directly to me
>> in
>> E-mail or news groups.
>>
>> Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Program
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
>>
>> DISCLAIMER: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranty of any
>> kind,
>> either expressed or implied, made in relation to the accuracy,
>> reliability
>> or content of this post. The author shall not be liable for any direct,
>> indirect, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use of,
>> or
>> inability to use, information or opinions expressed in this post and
>> confers
>> no rights.
>>
>>
>> "randypape" <randyp***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:4CA0BB14-CDAF-4F21-99B4-5CE4400F77B0@microsoft.com...
>> > hello, i setup my printer for sharing from my desktop. i want to print
>> > from
>> > my wireless connection through my laptop. when i try to add a new
>> > printer
>> > with the computer name and printer name to my laptop, it says driver
>> > not
>> > loaded on source computer . i know it is though because the printer
>> > works
>> > fine. any ideas? also i have a security program like zonelabs that says
>> > i
>> > should add the ip address from the laptop into the trusted zone of the
>> > program. where do i locate the ip address of my laptop when i'm
>> > connected?
>> > i
>> > have no problem doing the ipconfig on the desktop from a command prompt
>> > but
>> > this doesn't work on my laptop, it doesn't show anything. thanks for
>> > any
>> > help.. Randy
>>
>>
>>