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Microsoft Broadband Networking Wireless Notebook Adapter User’s Guide
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Ensure that the printer is shared over your network.
If your printer is connected to
a computer, which is then connected to your network, you must make that printer
available to other computers. This process is known as “sharing” a printer over
the network.
To make a printer available to the network, go to the computer that is connected
directly to the printer. Follow instructions for printer sharing for that computer’s
operating system. For more information about sharing a printer over the network,
see Windows Help.
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Check whether the correct printer driver is installed.
Every computer that will use
a shared printer on your network must have that printer’s driver installed. You can
make sure that the driver for the networked printer has been installed on a
computer by checking the
Printers
item in Control Panel. If it is installed, you will
see your shared printer listed in the
Printers
section. After you have verified that
the printer driver is installed, try printing a test page from the computer.
You can install the printer driver by opening
Printers and Faxes
through Control
Panel in Windows XP, or through the
Add Printer
feature in Control Panel on other
Windows operating systems. If Windows prompts you for a driver disk, use the driver
disk that came with your printer.
I cannot access a shared file or folder from a computer on my network.
Files and folders are “shared” when they are made available to other users on your
network from the computer on which they reside.
The following troubleshooting steps will help you track down and solve the problem.
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Make sure that your network is functioning correctly.
By checking the status of
your network, you can determine if the problem is due to a connectivity issue with
your network or due your shared file configuration. One easy way to check the
status of your network is to verify that all of the computers can access the Internet.
If you are having problems accessing the Internet (possibly caused by loose or
incorrect cables), fix those problems before proceeding with other troubleshooting
methods listed here.
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Try accessing a different shared file or folder.
If there are other shared resources
on your network, try accessing those resources instead. If you can access other
shared files but not the one you want, you might not have permission to access the
file. For more information about permissions, see the next topic.
