"Comfortably Numb" <manyaki RemoveThis @hotmail.com> wrote in
news:bij7at$8ri$1@news-int.gatech.edu:
> I have a bunch of pc's that are connected to a router. I also have
> a network printer. One pc is able to connect to the printer and
> print fine. The other pc's are not able to see the printer at all.
> They cannot even ping it's ip. What I have done now to get things
> going, is to share the printer on that one pc and let the others
> use the share. How can get the other pc's to printer directly to
> the printer? I tried adding an IP port with the ip address of the
> printer, but it tells me that the printer is unavailable.
>
> Some pc are running windows 98 and the others windows xp.
>
Are you pinging the printer by name or IP Address? If you cannot ping
using the IP address, then there is either a network problem or the
printer does not support pinging. I assume that the router is DHCP-
assigning the PC's IP addresses and you have fixed the printer's IP
address within the same subnet but outside the router's dynamically-
assigned range (You wouldn't want the IP of your printer to change).
WinXP can natively support direct IP printing to port 515 (LPR).
Windows 95/98 does not have support for this kind of printing without
installing other software such as HP's JetDirect (for HP printers) or
an LPR client like:
<http://tinyurl.com/7358>
HTH,
John<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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