-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A Deskjet doesn't have the native capability to have an IP address. You'd have to attach it to an external JetDirect box (which is, in effect, a dedicated print server), and give the IP address to the JetDirect.
I suspect it will be easier to fix the setup you have now. Can you connect to the printer by its UNC name (\\server\sharename)? > -----Original Message----- > From: Wade Preston Shearer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 08:00 > To: BYU UUG Post > Subject: [uug] printer on wireless network > > alright... so i bought the D-link wireless router and set it up last > night at home. very nice... it had a nice, simple, web-based > interface. it was very easy to configure. > > anyway. so i have a printer hooked up to one of the computer (this > one is running Microsoft Windows) that is connected to my network. i > shared this printer. > > now, i want to be able to send print job to this printer from across > the wireless network (from my PowerBook). i am connected to the > network and able to see both computers, both ways, but... the > printer isn't showing up when i look for it to install it (it is an > HP DeskJet). > > i was thinking that one of the easy ways to route to it would be to > assign an IP to the printer. in the "Print Center" in OS X, you can > route to a printer via several ways... AppleTalk, Rendezvous, USB, > IP, Directory Services, etc". i know that the printers on the > network at the office where i work have their own IPs. > > what's the best way to find this printer? should i assign it in IP? > how do you assign a printer an IP? > > -wade preston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBPnsyMnNq1Kdl3W66EQKcAwCePrGckZmbbo0wGQEEWxcd2EzboAQAoNPO lUrf51KnxphssiG8VGZJntqW =X2Z2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
