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Shared printer over WiFi through USB connected laptop

2 Dell laptops, windows 10. Brother printer connects to one of the laptops through USB only. Both laptops installed with Brother driver and through USB they work fine. Both have network discovery enabled with printer sharing enabled. Both computers able to ping each other as they are on the same WiFi network. The printer is shared by the laptop to which the USB connected and when searched up on the other laptop over the network the printer is not dectected, again the laptops ping each other but the printer is no where to be seen, I have tried manually adding the printer, it will add but it wil

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