couls somebody please give me the steps for setting up two comps to speak to each other, share a printer using a crossover cable

i have installe dthe cable and both computers can aceess the web but that is all i try looking in my network places and nothing is shown

i am very confused and this may take some time but please help

have you got the printer drivers on both PC's ? is the firewall stopping the other from seeing it?

printer installed on both pc firewall permisson allowed (i think)