My older Brother just finished a visit over Thanksgiving. He brings his
HP laptop. When he is here, he uses static settings I gave him some
years back to use my LAN's router/gateway for internet access. When he
is back at his home, he just 'props' his TC/IP properties and toggles
back to his DHCP LAN. This has worked perfectly, so far.
Well, until I try to give him access to my LAN's printer......... :(
I suspect that he uses the MS default workgroup of "MSHOME" on his home LAN.
(On my home LAN, I use "WORKGROUP" to ID my LAN's workgroup.)
I suspect this because when I peek under NetNeighborhood, I see MSHOME
listed first with a pretty full 'tree' of stuff. Then, below, I see
WORKGROUP with my printer (via its' MAC addy) and my NAS in this tree.
I spent an hour trying to get his XPpro OS to see/recognize my printer
and 'install' a link (my printer) to it so he could print. No joy at
all.No wizard(s) I tried worked. Many 'red-X' windows! Gave up just
before launching the laptop thru the bedroom window!!!
I did get 'his' document to print via sneakernet to my office client.
Good solution, but most frustrating......... :)
(True, setting up printers (for me) remains a frustrating mystery.)
{Interestingly, his saved document was a dot-xps file that I could only
read/view via IE8. It appears that my clients are missing a file called
xpsviewer.exe. More offline research........... :)}
I believe I got trapped via not knowing how to link a resource from one
workgroup to a laptop on another workgroup. I use the term 'workgroup',
but maybe I may be talking about 'domain'?????
Just wondering .............. :)
Thanks,
Duncan
