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Hi. I'd be very grateful for any help here...

I've recently got my desktop and laptop wirelesly networked, which all works fine. Unfortunately, I'm completely stumped when trying to network my printer.
I go to Control Panel -> Printers and Faxes and right click my printer, set "share this printer" and give it a share name, yet when I hit OK I get the message "Printer settings could not be saved. Operation could not be completed."
I have no clue what is causing the error or how to go about fixing it.

It could also be linked to another problem I have when I try to share a folder on my PC. Although I've set some folders to shared status, I cannot get access to them from my laptop. However, sharing folders on my laptop works fine and I can access them from either machine. It's no real big problem, 'cos I just use a single folder (resident on laptop) to pass files between the two. It's curious though and would be nice to set any folder and have it act as it should... Still I guess that's PCs for ya!

Cheers

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Hi betterspud....this all sounds very much like Windows Firewall issues to me.

Try disabling them all and try sharing the files/folders and printer again.

Disabling the firewall makes no difference. Anyhow, I have Windows firewall set to allow printer/file sharing.
Thanks for suggesting it though. Anything is worth checking. If you have any more thoughts...

Have a look at this Spud, it may help.
Share Your Printer Over a Home Network Using Windows XP

Thanks for your help guys, but I've some how managed to find the root of the problem.
It seems that I had disabled the "server" service on my user's profile on my desktop PC. Now that I've re-enabled it. I've got full access both ways between my networked machines.

Only problem I'm having is that, although I've set my printer up as shared, when I try to add printer on my laptop, it seems unable to locate it.
Will keep tinkering and hopefully I'll get to the bottom of this...

Thanks again