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I've been setting up a home network for my neighbors and the first time I set up the network everything worked fine no problem. They were able to print from they're family PC to they're office PC without any problems. They have recently contacted me and told me that they're son got on the office PC and messed something up somehow. So I WENT over and checked it out and it looks like the Static IP that I set up for the Office PC was set to default. I switched it back and now the family PC isn't detecting the printer that is installed on the Office PC.

The printer will print from the Office PC but it won't print from the Family's PC. I've checked to see if it was installed correctly. Also whether or not it's being shared and everything looks good. I tried to go to the printer control panel. Then add new printer and select network printer and then I type in the printers name exactly how its shown on the Office PC and then it tells me that "The printer name I entered is invalid. Please enter a valid printer name" But it's exactly as it shows up on the Office PC.

Here is they're PC's info:

The Family PC-
AMD Athlon 64 3000+
2.00ghz, 512mb of RAM

Microsoft Windows Xp Home
Service Pack 2

192.168.1.151
255.255.255.0
192.168.1.1

The Office PC-
AMD Athlon XP 2200+
1.80 GHz, 480 Mb of RAM

Microsoft Windows Xp Home
Service Pack 2

192.168.1.152
255.255.255.0
192.168.1.1

Sorry for the short novel but I had to explain everything
Are both computers STILL members of the same workgroup?

"IPCONFIG /all" at a COMMAND prompt will tell you lots of useful information.Yes they are still connected to each otherThat's not what I asked though. Cut and paste the output of the command "ipconfig /all". That would be a big help. Ta.Ok then do you want a screenie of both pc's or just one of them?Both would be great, but you can just cut and paste the text from the command prompt rather than taking a SCREENSHOT ("screenie"?!).



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