[motohockey]

Check the following things:
do nbtstat -A 192.168.x.y where x.y is the ip of the kitchen computer.
check that both machines are in the same workgroup
this isn't a dns issue. since they are on the same network a broadcast should get a response.
check your dns suffix settings on both machines.
If none of these works post a screen shot of your settings.

[rudy45]

The computer I myself am using (in order to print from the kitchen computer) has a blank field associated with "DNS Suffix for this connection." The box "Use this connection's DNS suffix in DNS registration" is unchecked.

What should my suffix settings be?

Thanks.

[NonValueAdded]

Since the printer is attached to computer Kitchen, it will not have its own name or IP address and is not directly pingable. Therefore, you are relying on Windows to process the request from the Network Interface Card, fire up the print spooler and start your print job. What you need to accomplish is to tell computer Kitchen that the printer is sharable with or without password protection. You probably assigned a name to the printer when you installed it on kitchen, let's say scribe. On Kitchen, bring up the printer in control panel and look at it's properties. There should be a tab that says sharing. That is where you can assign the share name Kitchen_PRT or Kitchen_Scribe, etc. Next, on the other computers you need to install the printer as well but when asked, identify it as a network printer and browse to find it. Or have you done all that?

[rudy45]

OK, I did nbtstat -a 192.168.0.100 (that's the address of KITCHEN, the PC that has the USB printer attached to it)

Here's what I get from the system:

KITCHEN <00> UNIQUE Registered
HOME_NET <00> GROUP Registered
KITCHEN <20> UNIQUE Registered

It seems that Netbios DOES know to associate KITCHEN with 192.168.0.100? But still I can neither ping KITCHEN, nor do a NET VIEW. Thanks.