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I have a laptop runing XP Home, and a desktop running W98se. Both are
connected to the internet via an Actiontec wireless router model GT701WRU.
What I want to do is leave my printer connected to the W98 PC and send
documents to it remotely from the XP laptop.

I would like a few pointers as how to configure my connections. The user
manual is a too .... erm .... clinical(?). It just gives basic (and
advanced) technical info without really guiding me through setting it up.

Could anyone help me please. Let me know what other info you need about my
existing set-ups.

Thanks

Chris

Watcher of the Skies wrote:
> I have a laptop runing XP Home, and a desktop running W98se. Both are
> connected to the internet via an Actiontec wireless router model GT701WRU.
> What I want to do is leave my printer connected to the W98 PC and send
> documents to it remotely from the XP laptop.
>
> I would like a few pointers as how to configure my connections. The user
> manual is a too .... erm .... clinical(?). It just gives basic (and
> advanced) technical info without really guiding me through setting it up.
>
> Could anyone help me please. Let me know what other info you need about my
> existing set-ups.

You're setting there with a wire/wireless AP router. You should go get
yourself a wire print server, plug it into a wire LAN port on the
router, plug the printer into print server, and both computers can print
to the printer, without the need of having the printer connected to a
computer. It can be a wire or wireless computer as they can both print
to the printer as the printer is connected to the router.

Print servers are cheap.