Buy a printer server or remote desktop?

[Andrew]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?)

I was wondering if I should buy a printer server to print my stuff wirelessly
to my home computer, or update my Windows XP Home Edition to Professional so
I can use the Remote Desktop, then wireless print from there. Which one is a
better?

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?)

Andrew wrote:

> I was wondering if I should buy a printer server to print my stuff wirelessly
> to my home computer, or update my Windows XP Home Edition to Professional so
> I can use the Remote Desktop, then wireless print from there. Which one is a
> better?

Where is the computer you want to use to send print jobs? How is the
printer connected? If you have a wireless network at home, you can use
Remote Desktop from the remote computer, but your first alternative, if
I understand it correctly, can't work unless the remote computer is
within range of the home network (a few hundred feet at most).

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax (More info?)

You can "share" the printer on your home computer, then add the printer as a
"Network Printer" on the laptop.

You can do this with XP Home; you don't need XP Professional or any
additional hardware.

--
Bruce Sanderson MVP

It is perfectly useless to know the right answer to the wrong question.


"Andrew" <Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:FED463C5-98A4-405D-B282-17D776322101@microsoft.com...
>I was wondering if I should buy a printer server to print my stuff
>wirelessly
> to my home computer, or update my Windows XP Home Edition to Professional
> so
> I can use the Remote Desktop, then wireless print from there. Which one is
> a
> better?