n/w two pc's at home

[civlguy]

This was originally posted to the "Sharing" forum on Nov 14. No helpful replies received yet.
My wife and I each have our own PC in separate rooms. I subscribe to DSL and use a Linksys 4-port router, to which both PCs are wire-connected. What do I have to do, or buy and do, to be enabled to use the printer connected to her PC? I use Win 98SE and she uses Win ME.
I know this is simple stuff, but see my bio. Thanks.

[Greenstead]

I haven't donw this myself because I use a network printer. But my understanding is that you have to set the printer's properties to shared and install the printer driver on your PC.

[civlguy]

Unfortunately, the solution isn't as simple as you suggest. When I tried installing the printer driver on my PC, I was asked which network the printer is on. Since there is no network between the two PCs, I couldn't install the driver. In addition, "sharing" a printer is not given as an option. Now I am back at square one with my original question: How do I network the PCs so hardware can be used by both, and files shared if I desire that? There must be a simple way, I just don't know it. Is there anyone in this forum who can answer this question? Many thanks to all.