Dan, I have an HP 1200 series printer plugged into my Ethernet network. I have two Macs and a Windows 98 machine on the network and all of them can print to the printer. It's been a while since I set up the printer on the windows machine but I believe I had to input the printer's IP address to get the windows machine to see it.
Hope this helps. Harry Saturday, January 31, 20049:45 PMDan Crutcherdcrutcher at loumag.com >I'm still wrestling with getting my LaserJet 5 recognized on our office >network (in order to upgrade the print server firmware so that it can >be seen by the Macs... long story), so I've been spending some time >fooling with the two Windows machines on our network (of about 20 >Macs), which leads to some questions: > >1. Why does our ethernet-connected LaserJet 4000 not show up on the >Windows machines even thought they are on the same LAN as that printer? >The Macs on the same LAN have no trouble recognizing and printing to >this printer. > >Both Windows machines are running XP. If I go to their "Printers and >Faxes" settings and "Add a printer" using the network printer option, I >would expect the LJ 4000 to show up when the computer "browses" the >network for printers, but it it not found. Nor does it find an HP >LaserJet 1200c that is also on the network. > >It does find a printer that is connected locally to one of the Windows >computers and "shared" over the network. The Macs do not see that >printer. > >What do I need to do to get the Windows machines to find the printers >that the Macs recognize and the Macs to find the printer that the >Windows machines recognize? > >Dan > > > > >| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >| be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >| This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 24. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
