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Last week, the cable guy came and installed a cable modem, registered the
modem's MAC and verified that the modem was working with his network, then
left. After that, I went to work. I set up a Linksys wireless AP and
successfully connected four computers (all wirelessly, although the laptop
was *initially* connected with cable so that I could configure the router).
I have 128-bit WEP enabled, MAC filtering is active, the SSID, host name and
password are all changed, and we're good to go. We love the fast Internet
connection, and all is well.
Question: My wife doesn't have a printer and would like to occasionally
print stuff from one of the printers connected to one of the other computers
on the network. I've set up an infrastructure network (not ad-hoc), so I'm
not quite sure how to go about doing the necessary plumbing work to get her
access to a printer. Nothing shows up in My Network Places. Can someone at
least point me in the right direction?
Last week, the cable guy came and installed a cable modem, registered the
modem's MAC and verified that the modem was working with his network, then
left. After that, I went to work. I set up a Linksys wireless AP and
successfully connected four computers (all wirelessly, although the laptop
was *initially* connected with cable so that I could configure the router).
I have 128-bit WEP enabled, MAC filtering is active, the SSID, host name and
password are all changed, and we're good to go. We love the fast Internet
connection, and all is well.
Question: My wife doesn't have a printer and would like to occasionally
print stuff from one of the printers connected to one of the other computers
on the network. I've set up an infrastructure network (not ad-hoc), so I'm
not quite sure how to go about doing the necessary plumbing work to get her
access to a printer. Nothing shows up in My Network Places. Can someone at
least point me in the right direction?