How in the world do you sucessfully share a printer and files on a workgroup? I have the workgroup names inputed into the desktop and laptop, then I also set permissions for sharing as well. What am I missing?

have you run the printer set up wizard on any of the computers you want to share the printer on?

Make sure everyone is on the same workgroup. Enabling the printer sharing is a no-brainer, and make sure there is nothing on the router that is preventing access (if you are running a router).

What OS'* are you using?

Yea, tells me no printer is in range. This is all wireless by the way

Have you tried pining the other computers, just to make sure they can communicate?

Windows XP, and i made sure the WG name is the same on both of them. Gonna try pining now...

Try yelling at it. That always works.

Ping has been timed out. I tried pining the desktop computer with the router, and i also tried pinging my own laptop (at my uncles house setting him up) and no sucess, what does this mean? im having a brain fart

You said it'* wireless correct? In that case, it might not be getting a signal, or it'* not pulling an IP address. You could try restarting the computer, or renewing the IP address, or trying to fix the signal if it'* bad.

i just changed the ssid to the same name as the workgroup. gonna release the ip numbers on both and renew, then see what happens