[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]

Yes, thanks. I have defined the printer attached to the KITCHEN PC. It's set to share. THe problem is that when I try to browse for this kitchen PC, to attach it to my laptop, I don't see it when I do the add network printer wizard. I see KITCHEN, but when I double click on it to drill down, nothing happens, ie. it doesn't expand to a list of printers attached to KITCHEN.