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    network printer - multiple PC

    In my office I have a network printer and about four PC's. So I have setup the TCP port on each PC to the IP of address of the printer and installed the appropriate drivers.

    What happens is when I come in the next morning only one of the PC's can print, the other PC's can't. The printer shows up as offline. I end up deleting the printer and adding it back in again.

    I am using the printer in the wrong way. Does one of the PC's need to share the printer and the rest use the share? Maybe I should buy one of those little print-server devices. Any tips?
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    Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View Post
    In my office I have a network printer and about four PC's. So I have setup the TCP port on each PC to the IP of address of the printer and installed the appropriate drivers.
    Why is it this complicated? On XP, just set up the printer as a network printer and it should find it when you switch on.
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      #3
      For a moment, I had a horrible feeling that if the printer's IP address was 192.168.1.10, you had gone to the PC's and also given each of them an INTERNAL IP address of 192.168.1.10 as well.

      In which case, you are fooked.
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        No haven't done that. went through the add printer wizard and selected local printer, then created port - ip <IP_ADDR> - and then installed the printer driver. Could UPNP be having an affect?

        It really is weird because I can access the printer's SNMP info and its web page. The taskbar thingi also can contact the printer, but the printer icon in windows indicates it is offline. I have to do the delete-recreate almost everyday...this is supposed to just work isn't it?
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          Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View Post
          No haven't done that. went through the add printer wizard and selected local printer, then created port - ip <IP_ADDR> - and then installed the printer driver.
          What happens if you add it as a network printer, as opposed to a local printer?
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            #6
            Originally posted by KevinS View Post
            What happens if you add it as a network printer, as opposed to a local printer?

            Doesn't work that way. The printer can't be found.
            McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
            Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."

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              Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View Post
              this is supposed to just work isn't it?
              No, that's a Mac. Windows only pretends to Just Work.

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                #8
                Try switching off the windows firewall on a PC that can't print?

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                  Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View Post
                  Doesn't work that way. The printer can't be found.
                  I think that's the problem, mine is setup as a network printer (on a Mac/windows environment).

                  Have you gone through the setup utility in the Printers web page - maybe it's not running a particular service, or as you suggest your router doesn't allow upnp requests?

                  Tried adding a network printer using the ip address?
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                    #10
                    My printer is plugged into the router - the 2 kids PCs and my laptop just added it by running the disc that came with the printer on each device we wanted to connect (HP Photosmart by the way)
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