[Halcyon]

I've just spent ages trying to sort out printing on my network.
I have 2 PC's and a Laptop.
PC1 is connected to a printer on LPT1. This PC runs on Win98SE.
All systems connect to the Internet fine thruogh my wired ethernet router.

So, I want to get the laptop (WinXP Pro) to print on the printer located upstairs.
I've looked at the useful guides on here and can ping both machines.
I then went to my PC and found my printer, right clicked it and selected sharing.
Then I went to my Laptop and opened up printers folder, and selected to make a new printer. I followed it through and it found my PC, then my printer.
For some reason it had nothing wirtten in the location bit, but WinXP told me it had all finished OK.

Right, So I go and open up Word and attempt to print out a page, making sure the new printer is selected. It hangs for ages and then the program stops responding. Nothing prints.
I've tried printing with another application, same problem.

So I wonder what is going on there.
Then another thing thats happened is that although I can ping the laptop, when I attempt to access and click on it, it is prompting me for a password. Ive tried my login password for windows and it doesnt seem to be it.
Plus Im logged in as administrator.

I've tried playing around with the firewalls and have added the laptops IP address to zonealarms safe list on the PC and also enabled file and print sharing in Windows Firewall on the laptop.

Anyone know what Im doing wrong.

Thankyou for any help you can give me.


Halcyon.