file/printer sharing between Windows XP Pro/Windows 7/Ubuntu Wirelessley

[techsmith]

i have a friend who asked him to make it possible for him to share files/printers between his 2 windows and 1 linux machine wirelessley

the XP Pro box has the dsl modem and wireless router the main machine
2nd machine is his Ubuntu box witch connets with a usb wireless adapter and finely his Acer One mini laptop with windows 7 not sure if its basic or starter is it possible to do what he wants? TIA

[INDRANIL]

1. Install your printer.
2. Open your Control Panel, then open your "Add or Remove Programs" then click on Click on "Add/Remove Windows Components" located on the left side of the dialog box
3. Now Put a check on "Other Netwrok File and Print Services" then click "Details" make sure that the "Print Services for Unix" is selected. (you may need your XP CD and a reboot)
4. Open "Printer and Faxes" then right click on your printer then "Share", give your printer a share name t (ex. "HP1012d" quotations not inclucded). Also give static ip. This Share Name would later be used as the Print Queue on your Linux machine & windows 7 mechine .

5. The Windows Firewall may block Linux & win 7 machines from printing, turn off your firewall for the meantime..

6. Make sure that your Windows' IP number is Static.

now on windows 7 mechine

1. Control Panel==> add LOCAL (Yes LOCAL) printer.

2. Create NEW port==>Local port

3. Portname is \\XPMACHINE\printer name

chose TCPIP port
enter the IP address.

4. Now Windows 7 will load a driver and you'll be able to print on the XP machine.

Now you can acess the printer from the win7 also.

One more thing make sure both machines must be member of same workgroup.

And which linux you are using ??

[techsmith]

He is Using Ubuntu and what about the ability to share files between the 3 machines that is the main motivation behind waning to network them

[INDRANIL]

Use a central device like wireless switch or wifi connect pc's in it. Keep 2 windows machine in same workgroup. Now you can share file with each other. For ip setup have a look here(also help you to enable file sharing). If you follow the above process it will enable printer sharing between windows xp and windows 7. For printer setup in ubuntu look here.

For wireless network you can use wifi miniport as central device and wireless lan card in pc.

[hellnoire]

Which Linux OS is he using? That will decide how I show you to set up Samba, which allows Linux to be accessed by Windows machines.

[techsmith]

thanks for you help i have solved this problem with your assistance