Winxp shared printers not visible to wireless machines

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See if Bruce Sanderson's article helps:
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/Printing%20to%20Print%2...
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Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com

"Enyalius" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am reposting this issue as no one was able to help out
> with the problem a little while back I am hoping to have
> better luck this time.
>
> The current network has 2 winxp machines that are setup
> under a common workgroup name, one of the winxp machines
> has 2 printers shared, which can be found by the second
> winxp machine (since it has the same workgroup name).
>
> Here is the tricky part, laptops connect to this network
> wirelessly, all machines obtain ip addresses from a
> wireless router on the network, but are not able to
> see the workgroup to add printers. These laptops are winxp
> and win2000 machines that the users login to on a domain,
> the domain being their office domain. My question is, is
> there a way to get these laptops that are logged into
> their company's domain to see the shared printers?
>
> I have also tested to get the laptops to login just to the
> local machine so where it says "log on to:" I would select
> COMPUTERNAME(this machine) and that works if the computer
> that does not have the printer shares is turned off,
> otherwise the same problem occurs where the printers are
> not browsable.
>
> Firewalls on all computers are off, and the service for
> computer browsing is enabled on all computers. I just
> have no idea why it will not let you browse for the
> printers if you are not in the same workgroup but you are
> connected within the same ip range.
>
> The printers are connected to a Linksys EtherFast 3-Port
> 10/100 PrintServer (EPSX3)
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
>