Subj : Re: WinXP
To   : Gerald Miller
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 09:37 am

-=> Gerald Miller wrote to ROBERT FOWLER <=-

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

 GM> Ah Hah!  W98SE reports the printer as: "\\WINXP\Canoni55 on LPT1"...
 GM> Couldn't find a reference to a network address, but I think that if all
 GM> three machines can detect one another, then the addresses _should_ be
 GM> known to all.  ?

 GM> W2K has the printer "sort of" configured (well, it recognizes the
 GM> printer is on the XPP box), but when I call up the properties,
 GM> everything is "greyed out" and I can't make any changes.

 GM> The printer does have a USB port and the Canon instructions say that
 GM> "the USB connection is considerably faster than the parallel
 GM> connection, but that the two connectors cannot be used at the same
 GM> time." (that's understandable!)

 GM> All three boxes have USB ports, but I think I will run into the same
 GM> problem -- printer is plugged into a USB port of "down" computer and
 GM> printer is off-line...

 GM> I just went on the web and Googled for a USB HUB.  I'll have to have a
 GM> talk to my local Staples sales person...

 GM> I'll get back at you next week with my results (going out of town to
 GM> work).

"\\WinXP\Canoni55 on LPT1" is a network address... anything starting with "\\" 
is on the network; "WinXP" is the network name of your WinXP computer, and 
"Canoni55" is the name you've given the printer to share it across the network. 
And yes, that address SHOULD be available to all.

You certainly should be able to connect the printer to the XP system via USB, 
then share it across the network... though as you suspect, you may continue to 
be unable to print is the computer is not up and running.

If you're hoping to connect the printer to the hub and then to all of your 
various computers at the same time, I doubt that will work-- but if you just 
need the hub to get additional USB devices connected to your XP computer, that 
should be fine.


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