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[nukedathlonman]

Long time user of my DNS-323, very happy & satisfied with it.  I have two personal PC's on my network, both run Linux (one dual boots Vista).  I have no issues at all with printing from either machine in Linux, and Vista the odd time I boot into it and used the printer.  For work, I've been given a notebook that runs Windows 7 Enterprise.  Of course, the new machine does belong to a DOMAIN.  So I can't create a HOMESHARE network from it.  And there are no HOMESHARE networks on my network either.  As such, it can't find the D-Link share or the shared printer (it does detect the UPnP server and is very willing to connect me to the web page and stream media off it - neither of which I care for).  The D-Link is configured as traditional SMB Workgroup network.

So at this point, I simply use the FTP service to access the one share that stores PDF's I'd like for the computer to have access to (no real inconvenience with that - in fact, I like that it can't directly access the share's on my DNS-323).

But I can't convince the computer to print to the printer on the DNS-323. I've tried several different configurations - the closest I've been able to come to getting it to work is manually configuring up a TCP/IP printer, and then doing custom port settings and telling Windows 7 it's an LPR printer.  No go.  I also tried the same with RAW, and a few dozen other ways (like punching in \\DNS-323\LP as the printer name).

Any ideas on how to get the Windows 7 machine to talk to the printer, or am I really really up the creek (with out paddles) with being able to print using the DNS-323 with the Windows 7 Machine?

[rangerruss]

this worked for me

smb://<workgroup>/dlink-<s/n>:631/lp


you may or may not need the port designation..

[nukedathlonman]

this worked for me

smb://<workgroup>/dlink-<s/n>:631/lp


you may or may not need the port designation..

*nux syntax won't work in Windows...  That will work in Linux. :-)

But that did give me an idea...

[nukedathlonman]

Well, it looks to me like Windows 7 - at least the Enterprise edition when it is actively enrolled to a corporate Windows DOMAIN controlled network - will not talk to any Windows workgroup share (file or printer).  It will talk to HOMESHARE shares (file or printer) on a completely Windows 7 based home network though.

Alas, in my case, since my home network is comprised of several Samba servers and clients (with the one machine on occasion running Windows Vista), all my shares are based on Workgroup's.  So I'm pretty sure that I'm cooked, at least as far as printing from the DNS-323 (I can access it through the FTP server though.  From everything I tried and everything I've been reading, it would be a different story if the Windows 7 machine was not actively enrolled on a Windows DOMAIN network.