Hi
Yes, the drivers have to be installed on the Laptop too.
Installation should be done through Control panel/Printers & Faxes/ Add a
Network Printer.
Jack (MVP-Networking).

"Amy" wrote in message
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> Hey, i want to be able to print using my desktop printer from my laptop,
> ive
> followed the setup of the sharing printer, and ive searched for the
> printer
> but my laptop can't find any printers. i was wondering if maybe i need to
> install the cd rom for the printer on my laptop??
> thanks.

Make sure that you share the printer on the machine that its connected to
first. Then find the IP address of the target machines and go to RUN->and
type CMD-> then type in \\192.168.0.whatever then wait for the box to
display the shared setting of the target computer. Right click on the
printer Icon and choose CONNECT and it should automatically load the printer
on the target machine for you. Pretty basic.

Doug
"Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote in message
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> Hi
> Yes, the drivers have to be installed on the Laptop too.
> Installation should be done through Control panel/Printers & Faxes/ Add a
> Network Printer.
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
> "Amy" wrote in message
> news:649FE96D-AF6E-42F3-96EB-0E7D89F2AC14@microsoft.com...
>> Hey, i want to be able to print using my desktop printer from my laptop,
>> ive
>> followed the setup of the sharing printer, and ive searched for the
>> printer
>> but my laptop can't find any printers. i was wondering if maybe i need to
>> install the cd rom for the printer on my laptop??
>> thanks.
>
>

Interesting concept, that run thing...and more interesting is original
question. I suffer the same problem of my laptop and pc can both connect to
the internet, but I cnanot see the laptop on my pc network and I cannot see
my pc's printer...

PC is Vista, laptop is XpPro...and i cannot find the run command on the
Vista Machine.

thoughts?

"Doug Simar" wrote:

> Make sure that you share the printer on the machine that its connected to
> first. Then find the IP address of the target machines and go to RUN->and
> type CMD-> then type in \\192.168.0.whatever then wait for the box to
> display the shared setting of the target computer. Right click on the
> printer Icon and choose CONNECT and it should automatically load the printer
> on the target machine for you. Pretty basic.
>
> Doug
> "Jack (MVP-Networking)." wrote in message
> news:uZ4q6VfdHHA.4012@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> > Hi
> > Yes, the drivers have to be installed on the Laptop too.
> > Installation should be done through Control panel/Printers & Faxes/ Add a
> > Network Printer.
> > Jack (MVP-Networking).
> >
> > "Amy" wrote in message
> > news:649FE96D-AF6E-42F3-96EB-0E7D89F2AC14@microsoft.com...
> >> Hey, i want to be able to print using my desktop printer from my laptop,
> >> ive
> >> followed the setup of the sharing printer, and ive searched for the
> >> printer
> >> but my laptop can't find any printers. i was wondering if maybe i need to
> >> install the cd rom for the printer on my laptop??
> >> thanks.
> >
> >
>
>
>