Hi, folks. We've got a home network here with an XP machine and an Apple Quad PowerPC. We hooked up a D-Link DP-301U print server a couple weeks ago with our D-Link DL-624 wireless router and were successful at getting it to print anything the Mac sends to the Samnsung ML-1430 laserprinter. The XP machine is a different story: documents sent from Word, Notepad, or IE6 print ok. We can print the printer test page, too. We *CANNOT* print anything from Outlook 2003, OE6, or Firefox.
WHAT is the solution to this problem? I disabled 3rd party browser extensions in IE6, but I can't figure out how or if I should do the same thing for the three problematic programs.
I'm getting pissed off enough that I want to take back this somewhat useless print server. Any suggestions (including take back the equipment)? Please post here. Thanks a bunch.
I wanted to follow up to my original post below and tell everyone that after four days of battling with this situation, we finally determined that the VPN (Virtual Private Network) program I was using to connect to my work computer network was blocking printer communication.
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Solution #3
posted on May 28, 2006
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Not sure about D-Link's print servers, but HPs servers have been getting some flak for similar problems. It seems they are not truly designed to be "network print servers." Ask tech support for help, or take it back and get a refund. -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express # Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped. Thanks.
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Solution #4
posted on May 28, 2006
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On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:35:34 -0800, "Jim Pickering"
I loaded and ran this program on the XP machine, and it does not even find my print server, which is totally weird since the Mac does find it and print everything fine. Am I missing something here? The instruction manual implies that the program should automatically find the server, but this one isn't.
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Solution #5
posted on May 28, 2006
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Did you set it up using D-Link's PSAdmin program? If not, download it from this link and see if it helps: #
If not, D-Link offers pretty fair support on their webpage: # -- Jim Pickering, MVP, Outlook Express # Please deliver feedback to the newsgroup, so that others can be helped. Thanks.
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