I have been sharing my wife's hard-wired printer over our home wi-fi network for over a year with no problems. Suddenly 2 days ago, my computer no longer showed her \\Computer\Printer as an available printer on my computer, though her computer still shows it as a "Shared" device, and she can print just fine. Prior to this happening we had made no changes to either computer, although I think (not 100% sure) that an automatic Windows Update had been put on my computer the night before this happened.
Her computer runs Windows 8, mine Windows 8.1. I have spent the better part of the last 48 hours trying to get our 2 computers to recognize each other on the network without success. When I try to "Add a "Printer on my computer, I get an error message saying that that printer cannot be found. I have also tried to set up a "Homegroup" and share the printer through that, but when I create the Homegroup on my computer, her computer cannot recognize it, and thus will not let her computer "Join" the Homegroup. When I delete the Homegroup from my computer and then try to create one from her computer, I get an error message which says "A Homegroup Cannot Be Created on This Computer".
As a last resort, I tried to do a "System Restore" on my computer, using a Restore Point from about a month ago when everything was working fine, but it still did not show her computer/printer as being available.
Can anyone help me with this?
Her computer runs Windows 8, mine Windows 8.1. I have spent the better part of the last 48 hours trying to get our 2 computers to recognize each other on the network without success. When I try to "Add a "Printer on my computer, I get an error message saying that that printer cannot be found. I have also tried to set up a "Homegroup" and share the printer through that, but when I create the Homegroup on my computer, her computer cannot recognize it, and thus will not let her computer "Join" the Homegroup. When I delete the Homegroup from my computer and then try to create one from her computer, I get an error message which says "A Homegroup Cannot Be Created on This Computer".
As a last resort, I tried to do a "System Restore" on my computer, using a Restore Point from about a month ago when everything was working fine, but it still did not show her computer/printer as being available.
Can anyone help me with this?