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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-655 => Topic started by: Simijim on May 14, 2010, 09:17:32 AM
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I am new to using a router and chose the DIR-655. I have a wireless laptop and an HP wireless printer that work just fine.
My problem is I have a company laptop using a wired LAN connection into the router and I am unable to see the printer. Laptop is a Dell with XP.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Did you install the printer software ? Make sure if you do install the printer software, you set it up as a networked printer and not local....
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Sounds to me that you already have a LAN set up, as you state the printer and your laptop, both wireless, is functioning ok. Now if I understand you correctly, instead of using your wireless laptop, you are using another laptop from work that has an ethernet connection to the router and it has XP as the OS. If your home systems have an OS such as Windows 7 on them and you've set your LAN up using that OS, I would be willing to bet that that is where your problem is as Windows 7 handles things a lot differently than XP. All of my systems have W7 and I still have minor problems sometimes with all of my system/hardware communicating with each other on my LAN. IF you have W7, I would recommend setting up the Homegroup function and sharing your printer with the LAN that way. This was the only way I could get all of my systems to recognize that there was even a printer on my LAN. In my cas though, this seems to be more of HP's fault than anyone elses as they were totally unprepared for current drivers for the HP printer that I have and W7 64b or 32b. At any rate, one of the things I absolutely HAD to do was make sure that the printer was set up on my LAN via an ethernet connection and with that same system had to set up the Homegroup...etc...etc.....it was a BIG HEADACHE to say the least. I would give that a try and see if it helps.
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Does the company laptop have a pre-set IP-address? Could be it is using another subnet. Can you connect to the internet and the other laptop just fine?
If so, then Sammydad1's suggestion is the first way to go. You could also try to 'ping' the printer from the company-laptop, just to see if you can connect at all. IP-address can be found in the Status-page of the router web-pages.
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Thanks for the Ideas.
I did setup the router using my Vista OS laptop. The company laptop is XP and I will check if I can get to the internet. I did try to ping the printer wit hno success but I will try agin to make sure.
It may be since it is a compnay laptop they have put limitations on use or access. It appers to be setup for use in the plant intranet and that may very well be my whole problem.
Hope to get some time this week to check out your ideas and find a solution or at least have more questions to ask.
Thanks again for your asistance.