George Costanza
A Friendly Liberal
We are operating two computers on a wireless network. In between the two computers sits a router (wireless) and a printer. Either computer can use the printer because the printer is shared between them via the wireless network.
All of a sudden, I can no longer use the printer. My wife's computer can - mine cannot. When I try to print anything from any program, I get "Failure to initialize output device" or something like that.
I am running Vista Home. I know how to get into the network settings via the Control Panel. I have been trying everything I can think of to get the printer working, but so far no luck. I am wondering if anyone out there might be able to give me a hint or two.
I compared the network settings on my wife's computer to those on mine. One difference I noted was that in the settings screen, "password sharing" was not checked and it was checked on mine. So I unchecked password sharing on my computer, thinking that was the difference. It wasn't.
Everything has been going along just fine for the past year or so - then, all of a sudden, my printer became unconnected from the network. I need to get that little bad boy reconnected, so I can resume operations.
Help!!!!
All of a sudden, I can no longer use the printer. My wife's computer can - mine cannot. When I try to print anything from any program, I get "Failure to initialize output device" or something like that.
I am running Vista Home. I know how to get into the network settings via the Control Panel. I have been trying everything I can think of to get the printer working, but so far no luck. I am wondering if anyone out there might be able to give me a hint or two.
I compared the network settings on my wife's computer to those on mine. One difference I noted was that in the settings screen, "password sharing" was not checked and it was checked on mine. So I unchecked password sharing on my computer, thinking that was the difference. It wasn't.
Everything has been going along just fine for the past year or so - then, all of a sudden, my printer became unconnected from the network. I need to get that little bad boy reconnected, so I can resume operations.
Help!!!!