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Dec 12, 2004 | 2:50 pm

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nmenaker

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yes, and yes maybe

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Originally Posted by USAFAN

Thanks for posting this.
Question: Can the wireless computers in your configuration "connect" to each other?
Like on my mini "ethernet-LAN": Disk C on PC "B" is "mounted" as disk F on PC "A". And how about "remote" printing?
Thanks.

yes, once sharing is enabled on the network, (via the computers themselves actually) then they can "connect" to each other, mount drives, etc.

Printing is the same, but a printer has to be connected to one of the computers (preferably a wired LAN one) and that computer has to be one.

That is why, it is nice to get a wireless router, AP with a printer port, thereby eliminating the need to have a computer connect to a printer, and most importantly ALWAYS ON!.

Enable this printer for network printing is fairly trivial, and detailed in MSFT help and support within the basis of XP home and pro.

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