You need to know the ip address of your printserver and then you need to install an instance of the printer driver on the pc with a local port that's an ip address. In XP this would be: Control panel | add new printer Local printer attached to this computer Uncheck detect plug…
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I have a USB Samsung colour laser connected directly by USB and working with my PC. I want to turn it into a network printer and have a Netgear WGPS606 wireless printserver, which I have used before with a printer - so all set up and ready to go on my network.
I don't want to use the printservers auto setup up system, so how would I set this up manually?
As said, I have done it before and I know it can be done - I have just forgotten how.
You need to know the ip address of your printserver and then you need to install an instance of the printer driver on the pc with a local port that's an ip address.
In XP this would be: Control panel | add new printer Local printer attached to this computer Uncheck detect plug and play Next Create a new type of port Standard TCP/IP port Next Next IP address [connect printer to wireless server and switch on - XP's gonna look for it now] Next etc...
Simples.
Which is as far as I can get...
If I type in the IP of the printserver, it complains that a port with that name is already in use. It has two USB ports for printers and I think I need to tell it somewhere in the IP entry to use L1.
Thanks for the help so far.
Harry Bloomfield submitted this idea :
I have now got beyond that, but no test page printing....
The problem was that I still had a printer set up at that IP address, once its IP was deleted, I could complete the set up - but as said still no test page printed.
Got it....
It needed a P1 at the end for USB Port1 as in
IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxxP1
Glad you got there in the end :-)
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