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How do I hookup my printer from desktop to laptop?

My laptop cannot find a shared printer that is connected to the desktop; on a home wireless network?

  • I have a Dell N5110 laptop which is running Windows 7 Home Premium - 64 bit. When I first bought the laptop (a year ago) it found the shared printer easily and I was able to print to it from my laptop. However, a few days ago I was not able to print from the laptop as the printer was described as being 'offline'. In response to this, rather than try and find the cause, I deleted the printer from the laptop with the intention of simply adding it back. However, I have been unable to do so. For some strange reason my laptop is now not able to find the shared printer. Also what is causing this is that I cannot see the desktop computer on the list of computers in the network - I can only see my laptop. I would greatly appreciate any help in trying to solve these problems. Thank you

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    Looks like your system dns cache has not been renewed. Your router may have assigned different ip addresses to the machines than what is in the cache of the systems. go to command prompt on both your laptop and desktop execute ipconfig /flushdns execute ipconfig /registerdns execute ipconfig/renew execute ipconfig /all note down the ip address of the machine now try to ping the desktop from the other laptop like: ping 192.168.1.10 where 192.168.1.10 is the ip address of the desktop system. If the ping is returned then your have a connection between the two machines. Now you can try to find it in windows explorer or homegroup.

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both pc's need same WORKGROUP. file and printer sharing must be enabled with any IP comes its MASK the Masks for both pc's must be same eg 255.255.255.0 (which is the default) firewall's(eg those provided by your AV) must be trusting your Networked pc's IP's

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