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Mac Forum / General / Hardware / December 2007Wireless printing with PC and Mac
I've been thinking about buying a wireless printer but I'm wondering if it's necessary... I have a PowerBook G4 (10.3.9) and my son has a PC. They're linked to the net through a Belkin wireless router. Now, the question is, can I have a printer cabled to the PC and set up my PowerBook to print through it (ie through the PC, which has some sort of USB wireless "dongle") wirelessly? I'd rather not have the printer cabled to the PowerBook, it has to be the other way around. Or do I really need a wireless printer? (When replying please bear in mind that I know nothing about PCs ... :). Thanks. Leo. In article <6662add4-539b-400e-8c91-cb2720bef0fe@l32g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, > Now, the question is, can I > have a printer cabled to the PC and set up my PowerBook to print > through it (ie through the PC, which has some sort of USB wireless > "dongle") wirelessly? Leo- I believe you can, but I'm not the one to tell you how! If you can think of the wireless as working just like a wired connection, perhaps you can get the PC printer to work from the Macintosh. A "wireless printer" is just a printer that has an internal wireless adapter. You may be able to find an external adapter. My preference is to connect the printer to the wireless base station. If it happens to be a network (Ethernet) printer, that should be easy. If it is a USB printer, then your base station must have USB capability. The Apple AirPort Extremes do, but I'm not sure about Belkin. Fred > In article > <6662add4-539b-400e-8c91-cb2720bef0fe@l32g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Fred I would suggest a wired printer server adapter, either parallel or USB, and connect to your hub via an IP cable. Most adapters feature web based installation which basically means you give the adapter a permanent address (like 192.168.1.2). On the windows side you create a port to this address and use that port name when adding the printer. This all is covered is most adapters Iv'e used (belkin among them) The adapter should be visible to the mac as a network printer. It's a cheaper route than getting a IP savvy printer, and portable to your next printer.  Signature/los "I was a teenage net-random." > I've been thinking about buying a wireless printer but I'm wondering > if it's necessary... [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > "dongle") wirelessly? I'd rather not have the printer cabled to the > PowerBook, it has to be the other way around. When you set up the printer on your Powerbook running 10.3.x it needs to be a Windows Shared printer. I've only set this up once or twice so I can't remember the dialog boxes to help guide you but here are manula instructions from Apple: How to manually add a Windows shared printer 1. Open Printer Setup Utility (located in /Applications/Utilities). 2. Mac OS X 10.4.x users: Choose Add Printer from the Printers menu, then hold the Option key while clicking the "More Printers" button. Mac OS X 10.3.x users: Hold the Option key down while choosing Add Printer from the Printers menu. 3. Choose Advanced from the first pop-up menu. 4. Choose Windows Printer via SAMBA from the Device pop-up menu. 5. In the Device Name field, type the name you would like to use for this printer in Mac OS X. 6. In the Device URI field, use one of the following formats to link to the printer: smb://user:password@workgroup/server/sharename smb://user:password@server/sharename smb://workgroup/server/sharename smb://server/sharename On your Son's PC, I will assume that Windows Firewall is running, it is configurable from the control panel, and it needs to be set up to allow it file and printer sharing. In the contol panel double click on the security center and then select the firewall, from there you can select file and printer sharing. Make sure the scope is set up to only be the local network, you don't want requests from the Internet to be making it to his machine. To change the scope click the edit button with file and printer sharing selected and you will be able to change the scope to the local network. If he is running a different firewall I will assume that is a little more knowledgable and he just needs to be allowing connections from the local network on the following ports: 137 UDP 138 UDP 139 UDP,TCP 445 UDP,TCP UDP means the port needs to be open to UDP requests and TCP means that it needs to be open to TCP requests. Once the Mac is set up to connect to print to the Windows machine is set up to share and allow connections you should be able to remotely print. Or do I really need a wireless printer? > (When replying please bear in mind that I know nothing about > PCs ... :). > > Thanks. > > Leo. > UDP means the port needs to be open to UDP requests and TCP means that it > needs to be open to TCP requests. Once the Mac is set up to connect to > print to the Windows machine is set up to share and allow connections you > should be able to remotely print. Been away for a few days... Tried all that but it still doesn't work. I wonder if there's not a problem using the router to access the printer, could it possibly be just set up to route connected computers to the internet and not allow them to network between each other. It's a pretty cheap Belkin - bottom of the range one. Is there any way of seeing the printer on the network (if there is one) from my PowerBook? |
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