A friend of mine has a desktop computer with WinXPpro and Norton Protection Center with antivirus and some firewall built in. Recently he bought a laptop with VistaPremium installed on it and now he would like to use a printer which is connected to the desktop computer. The connection between both computers goes through a wifi modem/router. The desktop is wired to the router and the laptop uses wifi. I can see the laptop in the View Workgroup Computers but I cannot see the desktop machine from the laptop so I can't get to the printer. From the laptop's Network window I can only see the icon of the laptop and when I get to Network and Sharing Center I can only see the laptop connected to the router and further to the Internet and that's it. My guess is the inbound firewall from Norton product is not allowing the connection. But there is no way or at least I don't know of any to change its settings. My friend doesn't want to have the access from the desktop computer to the laptop but only the other way round just to get to the printer. Does anyone know what's the solution to this problem? yaro
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16 years ago