Now that I've got this new laptop that I can connect wirelessly to my
Linksys access point firewall router I would like to be able to print on
the laser printer that is attached to the parallel port of my old
desktop PC running XP Home. The desktop is attached to the router with
ethernet cable.

For the life of me I can't figure out how to make that printer
accessible to my laptop even though I had no such problems last year
with my employer's Dell Latitude D610 that was running XP Pro. Is there
something different with Vista laptops that make it difficult? Or
perhaps the software AVG firewall I am running now on my old desktop
does something different that the previous Trend Micro firewall? The
laptop is running Norton's security suite. My prior, corporate laptop
was running McAfee. I just can't figure out what settings I need to look
at to enable this remote printing. I don't think AVG is at fault as I
tried the connection with AVG disabled to no avail.

Any tips would be appreciated.

Rudy