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Confuzzeled23

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Jan 27, 2009
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Hey Everyone,
I recently moved my printer into my bedroom and my parents want to be able to use the printer through our home network like I had it set up before. It used to be connected to a Windows XP Pro system and my mac and our XP Home laptop could connect fine. However, now that it is connected to my Macbook running 10.5.8, I have printer sharing and file sharing turned on. When I go to add the printer on the other two computers, my Macbook shows up under our Workgroup, but it doesn't expand to show any printers. I was wondering if I was doing anything wrong?

We are all in the same workgroup, file and printer sharing is on, I do not understand what I am doing wrong.

Thanks for any help.
 
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