Share a Printer?

I'm trying to share a printer and cannot not.

I click Start/Devives and Printers, R-click on my HP Photosmart C5280 in
the printers list. I than click on its Properties and there is tab that
allows me to choose sharing?

What am I missing?

Win 7 Ultimate, Intel I7, 16Gb, 2M Vid, 80Gb 10K C:, 750Gb E:

Has anyone been able to use Homegroup to setup and Share a printer between
computers?

Artreid wrote:
> Has anyone been able to use Homegroup to setup and Share a printer
> between computers?

Do you see any of the dialogs in this article ?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...(v=WS.10).aspx

Paul

On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 01:41:29 -0400, Paul <> wrote:

>Artreid wrote:
>> Has anyone been able to use Homegroup to setup and Share a printer
>> between computers?
>
>Do you see any of the dialogs in this article ?
>
>http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/l...(v=WS.10).aspx


Link fixed
<http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee449421(v=WS.10).aspx>

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Are both machines Windows 7 ?
- Homegroup is Windows 7 to Windows 7



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"Artreid" wrote in message news:jmiu36$ir3$...

Has anyone been able to use Homegroup to setup and Share a printer between
computers?

On 17/04/2012 1:12 AM, Artreid wrote:
> Has anyone been able to use Homegroup to setup and Share a printer
> between computers?

Try this:

Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP - How-To Geek
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...dows-7-and-xp/

Yousuf Khan

Yousuf Khan wrote:
> On 17/04/2012 1:12 AM, Artreid wrote:
>> Has anyone been able to use Homegroup to setup and Share a printer
>> between computers?
>
> Try this:
>
> Share Files and Printers between Windows 7 and XP - How-To Geek
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...dows-7-and-xp/
>
>
> Yousuf Khan

The difference being, that's a workgroup recipe.

At the moment, we know one of Art's machines is Windows 7, but not
what the other one is (I assumed it was Windows 7, but I see there isn't
actually proof of that). If they're both Windows 7 machines (all machines
on the LAN using the same OS), then a Homegroup could work out. If it's
a mix of machines, then perhaps using the same Workgroup, same accounts
and same passwords for the sharing, would be the answer.

Paul

Artreid wrote:

> I'm trying to share a printer and cannot not.

Share from Windows 7 to WHAT?

> I click Start/Devives and Printers, R-click on my HP Photosmart C5280 in
> the printers list. I than click on its Properties and there is tab that
> allows me to choose sharing?

Is your question that there is a sharing tab (and you don't expect one)
or that there is not a sharing tab (and you expected one)?

> What am I missing?
>
> Win 7 Ultimate, Intel I7, 16Gb, 2M Vid, 80Gb 10K C:, 750Gb E:

That's the source host where is your printer. So to WHAT are you trying
to share that printer?

Artreid wrote:

> Has anyone been able to use Homegroup to setup and Share a printer
> between computers?

Homegroups are Windows 7 specific. They only work between Windows 7
hosts. If you want to share a device to a host running some prior
version of Windows then you need to define a workgroup on the Windows 7
host since that is the construct understood by prior versions of
Windows.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...ons-of-Windows

Also, on the local host where you want to access the shared printer, did
you install the drivers for that printer? In order to communicate with
the device means you need to have the driver for it on the local host
you are using to access the shared device on a remote host.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...hare-a-printer
(expand the "To print using a shared printer" section, see the Note)

"Artreid" <> wrote in message news:jmi95j$bgo$...
> I'm trying to share a printer and cannot not.
>
> I click Start/Devives and Printers, R-click on my HP Photosmart C5280 in the printers list. I than click on its
> Properties and there is tab that allows me to choose sharing?
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Win 7 Ultimate, Intel I7, 16Gb, 2M Vid, 80Gb 10K C:, 750Gb E:
>

Do this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/network-s...c-win-7-a.html

and you can share that printer easily with just about any mix and match of Microsoft OS's. Works great for me, and
doesn't require Homegroup at all.
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SC Tom