Network printer problems

[jmt391]

Hey guys I recently needed to network a printer to my PC but I can't get it to work. It's an HP Officejet K60

I shared the printer and gave it the name "K60." After running the wizard to add a printer, the list of networked printers came up with the PC that printer is attached to. However, the printer doesn't show up and if I highlight the PC name and type K60 in the bar, it says it cannot find it. The workgroup is the same for both PC's on the network. I'm not really sure what to do here so any help would be appreciated.

EDIT: winxp autoinstalled the K80 drivers and the printer wouldn't print so I manually installed the K60 ones and the K60xi ones and both printed correctly but neither shared correctly. I installed these on the PC that's attached to the printer

thanks

[dylskee]

Do you have file and printer sharing enabled on the computers. Follow this guide to enable it on both computers. http://www.intelliadmin.com/blog/2006/01/enable-file-and-printer-sharing-on-xp.html

[jmt391]

yes file and printer sharing have been enabled on both PC's

[dylskee]

Hmmm,

When you go through the network wizard and you get to the "specify a Printer" tick the box that says "Connect to this printer (or browse for a printer, select this option and click Next)" and click next, does the printer show??

[jmt391]

I click that and the following pops up:
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Microsoft windows network:
3012:
JUSTINPC - my pc
LINDAPC - printer pc
workgroup: - theres nothing in here I'm not sure why it's there

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in the bar on top i Type in K60(printer share name) with LINDAPC highlighted but it says the printer doesn't exist in the network. It is enabled to share though.

[dylskee]

Did you double click "LINDAPC" to see if the printer shows? Is the pc that is connected to the printer on? Sorry for the dumb questions but sometimes the little things are over looked. Did you run the network setup wizard on both pcs, can you access files from either computer?

[jmt391]

I ran the setup on both PCs before doing any of this but i was not able to share files for some reason. I toyed around with some stuff just now and i got it to work. AFter that, the printer ended up showing up. Not really sure why but I'm not complaining hah

thanks for your help I appreciate it

[dylskee]

No problem, glad to hear you got it worked out.