Subj : Re: WinXP
To   : GERALD MILLER
From : ROBERT FOWLER
Date : Sun Sep 11 2005 07:30 pm

-=> GERALD MILLER wrote to ALAN ZISMAN <=-

 GM>> I have a Canon i550 printer on my Windows XP Pro box and it is
 GM>> setup to share across the network with a share name of Canoni55.
 GM>> Windows 98 SE sees the printer just fine and I can print from
 GM>> that box just fine (even when the XPP box is powered off).
 GM>> Windows 2000 Pro is constantly telling me that the printer is
 GM>> offline...  Could you make some suggestions to help me fix the
 GM>> printer problem on the W2K box?

 AZ> I'm mystified as to how you can print across the network to a shared
 AZ> printer when the computer the printer is physically connected to is
 AZ> powered off!

 GM> This particular printer has a "remote" power option similar to the Wake
 GM> On Lan.  I know it works because the XPP box can be powered off and I
 GM> can send a "print job" from the W98SE box and the printer powers up to
 GM> print out my documents.

 The "remote" power option has nothing to do with what Alan is asking.
 He's asking about how the printer is connected to the XPP box.  This
 would be (as you are insinuating) by either a parallel cable or USB
 cable DIRECTLY to the respective port on the XPP box (doubt).

 The point is, that the above connection constitutes the path to the
 printer, and that if the host machine is off, there is no active
 path to the printer.  Nothing in the printer hardware can change
 that. ;-)  The network always requires an active electrical path
 from source to destination.
 
 GM> I'm going to remove the Share on the printer, reboot the XPP,
 GM> reestablish the Share for the printer and see if that will make any
 GM> difference...

 It shouldn't.  For what you are describing to work, your printer is
 not a locally shared printer in the XPP box, despite how you may choose
 to configure it there.  Icons and "share" hands are simply confusing
 you.

 IOW, Win98SE has access to this printer because it can reach it
 directly.  There is nothing in the XPP configuration that affects
 that.

 By the same token, W2K cannot reach it, because presumably, you have
 tried to configure it there as a XPP locally shared printer, rather
 than configuring it with it network address, which W2K can reach.

 Go into your Win98SE system, printers, and look at the properties
 for this printer.  You should find that it will list the port and 
 address information that you need to import into your W2K configuration.

 Regards,

 Robert Fowler




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