Unable to connect to network printer

Hello,

I hope someone can help with this:

I have a bunch of pc's that are connected to a router. I also have a network
printer. One pc is able to connect to the printer and print fine. The other
pc's are not able to see the printer at all. They cannot even ping it's ip.
What I have done now to get things going, is to share the printer on that
one pc and let the others use the share. How can get the other pc's to
printer directly to the printer? I tried adding an IP port with the ip
address of the printer, but it tells me that the printer is unavailable.

Some pc are running windows 98 and the others windows xp.

Thank you for your time and help.

CN

"Comfortably Numb" wrote in


 > I have a bunch of pc's that are connected to a router. I also have
 > a network printer. One pc is able to connect to the printer and
 > print fine. The other pc's are not able to see the printer at all.
 > They cannot even ping it's ip. What I have done now to get things
 > going, is to share the printer on that one pc and let the others
 > use the share. How can get the other pc's to printer directly to
 > the printer? I tried adding an IP port with the ip address of the
 > printer, but it tells me that the printer is unavailable.
 >
 > Some pc are running windows 98 and the others windows xp.
 >

Are you pinging the printer by name or IP Address? If you cannot ping
using the IP address, then there is either a network problem or the
printer does not support pinging. I assume that the router is DHCP-
assigning the PC's IP addresses and you have fixed the printer's IP
address within the same subnet but outside the router's dynamically-
assigned range (You wouldn't want the IP of your printer to change).

WinXP can natively support direct IP printing to port 515 (LPR).
Windows 95/98 does not have support for this kind of printing without
installing other software such as HP's JetDirect (for HP printers) or
an LPR client like:
<http://tinyurl.com/7358>

HTH,
John<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->