Re: Networking a printer through a router
- From: letoured@xxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 02:05:11 GMT
In <1120582096.612383.125720@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 07/05/2005
at 09:48 AM, pacgeo@xxxxxxxxx said:
>I have an Ecom PC networked to an XP PC via an SMC Barricade SMC7004VBR
>router (4 ports). My Lexmark Optra R printer is connected to my Ecom
>PC,which acts as the server for my XP printing tasks. What I would like
>to do is connect the printer directly to the router and be able to print
>directly to it from either machine. Is this possible? I realized, after
>the fact, that I should have purchased a router with a dedicated printer
>port and set up a pipe to this device, etc. However, I was told that this
>could still be done by assigning an IP address/name to the printer and
>activating/configuring certain drivers in the TCP/IP setup module.
>I have a network card for the printer and have tried some variations of
>configuring the settings, but no luck. Other problem is, if and when I
>get it running under Ecom, I have to do something similar in XP.
Download the Marknet software from Lexmark and install it.
>Let me know if this enterprise is at all worth pursuing.
.
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