monte70car Posted August 30, 2010 Posted August 30, 2010 For some reason I have one computer out of my 5 that wont pick up any of my printers, all printers have sharing on and the network name is the same on all computers. Quote
monte70car Posted August 30, 2010 Author Posted August 30, 2010 Everything in the house is wireless OS line it has XP but it is 32 bit. The rest of the computers either of win7 or vista on them, the XP one is the only one that can't find the printers. Quote
monte70car Posted August 30, 2010 Author Posted August 30, 2010 One host is running win7 pro and the other host with a printer has vista home on it. Quote
monte70car Posted August 30, 2010 Author Posted August 30, 2010 Allan that's the whole thing the host 7 computer has a laser jet printer on it and even the xp system can't find it. Back in Dec. the XP system had no issues finding the printers but I had to clean it up due to a virus that sneaked on the system thru a email my niece got from a friend. Quote
kc8oye Posted August 31, 2010 Posted August 31, 2010 I disagree.. I've cleaned up several computers that have had virus infections, and all of them (including the one I'm using now) have lived long and happy lives once I re-educated the owners about proper virus protection.. Quote
monte70car Posted August 31, 2010 Author Posted August 31, 2010 Yeah I though I could use my account on the laptop to add the printers but that didn't work so I haven't been back on it to mess with it. Quote
kc8oye Posted August 31, 2010 Posted August 31, 2010 allan. yah. in a commerical enviroment I can see that.. we used to do the same thing when I worked IT at the local college. we had boot disks and batch files all we had to do was bring the machine back to the lab, plug it into our 100mb switch (at the time the rest of the campus was 10mbit hubs) pop the disk in, turn it on.. and walk away.. in an hour or so, a fresh hard drive image was loaded up, and we got to go listen to the user whine about all their info they lost because they couldn't follow directions and save their files on the network drives instead of their local harddrives in the case of my computer, it was my dads, it already had the virus on it when I got it after he passed away.. and not knowing what all was on the hard drive, wiping it wasn't an option. Quote
Ian Posted September 1, 2010 Posted September 1, 2010 I build each new computer the way I want it then make a "Ghost" image so that when it starts to get slow I just restore it My kids mess theirs up all the time so I can image one and have it updated in less than a hour. I also keep my data on a second drive Quote
monte70car Posted September 1, 2010 Author Posted September 1, 2010 Hopefully tomorrow I can grab my nieces laptop and the power cord and take care of it, busy busy busy. Quote
Ian Posted September 2, 2010 Posted September 2, 2010 That looks cool Allan, I'll have to play with it I see 2TB drives on sale this week at CompUSA Quote
kc8oye Posted September 3, 2010 Posted September 3, 2010 i'll have to check that out. I learned the hard lesson about data backups just last week when my laptop was stolen... Quote
monte70car Posted September 16, 2010 Author Posted September 16, 2010 Well last week I redid her laptop and now its back to the same thing can't find the computer with the ink jet on it but it can find my laser jet which ran out of ink this afternoon . So I don't know whats going on with her laptop why it stops finding the printers all the computers are on the same mshome network the two with printers are set for print and doc sharing. Quote
Phil Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 Allan, why/how do these guys offer free services like that, where do they make the money to operate, I don't see a lot of advertising on there. Is this a better way then using a external drive, aside from the fact that a fire could wipe out both hard drives? Quote
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