Networking Wireless XP Home with Wired XP Pro?

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Hi, I'm running two computers. One desktop, wired to a Linksys router with xp pro. One laptop, wireless to the same router with xp home.

Ultimately I want to connect a printer to the desktop, and share it over the network.

Neither computer sees each other in network neighbourhood.

Is it even possible?

Thanks.

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1. give each computer a fixed ip address following this link (http://www.hotcomm.com/FAQ/FAQ_staticIPXP.asp#static_assign)

1a. make sure the ip addresses are on the same subnet (usually is not a problem in a home environment on a single router) linksys is usually 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x

2. make sure that the windows xp pro machine is set up to use simple file sharing following this link (http://compnetworking.about.com/cs/winxpne...ht/winxpsfs.htm)

3. Share resources such as file/folder/printer/scanner by right clicking and selecting sharing. enable sharing of the resource on the sharing tab that appears and press apply.

4. try accessing the computer from my network places again.

If you don't have success connecting in my network places then you need to try accessing via the ip address(es) that you assigned in step 1.

The format for accessing a machine by its ip address is \\192.168.0.25 for example.

A window should pop up, if the steps were performed correctly, showing shared resources (files/folder/printers/scanners.

Things that might prevent the successful sharing are firewalls like norton internet security etc.