My wife recently started working from home. She has a company laptop with
XP Pro that uses a domain.

At home, I have our home network with two computers (both using XP Home) and
a networked printer all on a Workgroup called "HOME". The printer (HP 7200
all in one series) is NOT connected to a PC, it is connected directly to the
network.

I have had no problems with the two family computers to access the printer
but I cannot get the business laptop to connect to the printer.

I've seen other advice saying to use start - run - \\computername but since
I'm connected directly to the network, I've been unable to do that.

Anybody had any insight?

rob wrote:
> My wife recently started working from home. She has a company laptop
> with XP Pro that uses a domain.
>
> At home, I have our home network with two computers (both using XP
> Home) and a networked printer all on a Workgroup called "HOME". The
> printer (HP 7200 all in one series) is NOT connected to a PC, it is
> connected directly to the network.
>
> I have had no problems with the two family computers to access the
> printer but I cannot get the business laptop to connect to the
> printer.
>
> I've seen other advice saying to use start - run - \\computername
> but since I'm connected directly to the network, I've been unable to
> do that.
>
> Anybody had any insight?

Is the printer using NETBIOS or TCP/IP?
If using TCP/IP - just add a printer - local - not auto detect.
Create a new port --> Standard TCP/IP port.
Put in the IP, etc - install the correct driver and go.

--
Shenan Stanley
MS-MVP
--
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Shenan thanks for the help.

When I go to specify a printer by clicking the "Connect to this printer"
radio button and input the IP address by using \\192.168.2.79 or
192.168.2.79 (which is definately the IP of the printer) it doesn't see it
and says it cannot connect. "Either the printer name was typed incorrectly,
or the specified printer has lost its connection...."

The only way that I have been able to get the laptop to see the printer is
by going to start - "my network places" - hitting the search button on top -
inputing the IP of the printer in the "computer name" search box it is able
to find it.

The search comes up with Name: "HP Printer (192.168.2.79)"
In Folder "Workgroup"
Comments as "HP Printer"

"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> rob wrote:
> > My wife recently started working from home. She has a company laptop
> > with XP Pro that uses a domain.
> >
> > At home, I have our home network with two computers (both using XP
> > Home) and a networked printer all on a Workgroup called "HOME". The
> > printer (HP 7200 all in one series) is NOT connected to a PC, it is
> > connected directly to the network.
> >
> > I have had no problems with the two family computers to access the
> > printer but I cannot get the business laptop to connect to the
> > printer.
> >
> > I've seen other advice saying to use start - run - \\computername
> > but since I'm connected directly to the network, I've been unable to
> > do that.
> >
> > Anybody had any insight?
>
> Is the printer using NETBIOS or TCP/IP?
> If using TCP/IP - just add a printer - local - not auto detect.
> Create a new port --> Standard TCP/IP port.
> Put in the IP, etc - install the correct driver and go.
>
> --
> Shenan Stanley
> MS-MVP
> --
> How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
>