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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / January 2005How to print over a home wireless network?
Hi: I am trying to print from my laptop to my HP DeskJet 970Cxi over a wireless network. The set up is: G4/450 Tower (running OS 10.2.8) which is connected to a router by an Ethernet cable, with the DeskJet attached to the Tower's USB port through a hub; and the PowerBook (1.33 GHz running 10.3.5, with the same DeskJet driver as the Tower--the most recent I could find on HP's website) connected by wireless to the router. With the printer turned on, the G4 awake, and the laptop connected via its Airport card to the network, I did print a trial page successfully: I connected to the laptop to the hard disk, opened a 1-page doc, and clicked Print (I'd checked that Sharing was on on the Tower and that the DeskJet showed up on the laptop in whatever Panther calls the Print Center). All fine. BUT--trying again the next day, it didn't work. Only two things were different, as far as I can tell. First, I'd connected the laptop to my account (the admin account) on the Tower, not the top level (i.e., the hard disk), and second, I had logged in on Safari on the Tower to an email account and had just printed from it. Why didn't the print job from the laptop work? Susan K  SignatureDr. Susan Kayser SDSS at FermiLab >Hi: > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > >Susan K Perhaps the Tower was asleep. SignatureRon Parsons Ron Parsons wrote: >>Hi: >> [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > > Perhaps the Tower was asleep. I clearly specified that the G4 Tower was awake--see above. Susan K SignatureDr. Susan Kayser SDSS at FermiLab >Ron Parsons wrote: >> [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > >Susan K I had erratic printing through my Airport to a shared printer until I switched my Airport to no longer distribute IP addresses. That allowed a pass through to the router and a clear path to the desktop with printer sharing turned on. SignatureRon Parsons > Hi: > [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Susan K My Epson 740 is plugged into my G4 "tower" running 10.3.7 as opposed to our Airport Extreme base station. For our new iBook, also running 10.3.7, we just enabled Rendezvous which will just print with little setup except turning it on. There is a Help Viewer file on this if you need it. However, the computer that the printer is plugged into cannot be asleep or off in order for the other computers to access the printer wirelessly. Rendezvous rocks. Madeleine SignatureIs Bush wearing a LifeVest defibrillator? http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/136872/ Thanks for the suggestion. If I can't get things to work otherwise, I'll give Rendezvous a try. Things are _supposed_ to work otherwise, but networks are an art, not a science :-( Susan K >>Hi: >> [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > Madeleine SignatureDr. Susan Kayser SDSS at FermiLab > Hi: > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > the Tower to an email account and had just printed from it. Why didn't > the print job from the laptop work? I'm nor sure why you're connection to the Tower at all. If the printer is connected to the Tower and the Tower has print sharing enabled, and the Tower's built-in firewall permits print sharing traffic, then whenever the laptop is connected to the network, you should see the printer in the Print Setup Utility's list of shared printers. Once you get that far, check the box for those shared printers which you would like to be displayed in the print Dialog menu. Then, as long as the tower is up and awake, you should just be able to print directly from the laptop without explicitly connecting to the tower. SignatureTom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF OK, I'll try that, and make sure that print sharing is still enabled and the firewall is set correctly (any special port?) Susan K >>Hi: >> [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > the tower is up and awake, you should just be able to print directly > from the laptop without explicitly connecting to the tower. SignatureDr. Susan Kayser SDSS at FermiLab > >>Hi: > >> [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > OK, I'll try that, and make sure that print sharing is still enabled and > the firewall is set correctly (any special port?) Yes, 631 and 515, but the Printer Sharing entry for the firewall should set it up correctly. SignatureTom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF |
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