Hello Group, I'm an old confused 'puter nut who lives in Ohio. Know just enough computer stuff to be dangerous! My wife forbids me to even look in the direction of her machine. She went so far as to have a special T-shirt made for me that says "HUMAN COMPUTER VIRUS". I've searched a lot of forums, but have never seen my problem discussed. I have a couple of computer that I experiment on. There are five computers here. 4 are connected to a router, hub or whatever they are called, via Cat 5 cable and the lap top is wireless. I've run "setting up a home network" and they are all in the network.(I think) The problem I am having is sharing the printers. To make a long story longer, I've tried to connect the printers (4 0f them) to the network so many times, the PRINTERS LIST has so many variations of the names I've tried, I dont't know which is which. My question is....how do I remove all these printers from the list?
Also I don't understand the page that tells you to enter the printer name you are trying to share. The example they show is "\\SERVER\NAME". I guess I don't understand "server"....basically. My understanding of "server" is something everything is plugged into. I my case everything is plugged into a LYNKSYS router (or HUB). Each of the 4 wired computers have their own printers plugged into them. I thought the names I gave the printers was too long so I "changed the name " thing, but the changed name doesn't appear on the lengthly list I want to delete, remove or whatever. Then I read on Microsoft web site that XP allows long names(up to 31 characters. Sorry this is so long. Help!