can't see network printers

[dschl]

Hi All,

Oh, I hope someone knows the answer to this. I've seen many posts for
this problem and haven't seen any solution that help this situation.

We have two MS machines in the office, Win2k and XP Pro, and two
network-enabled HP printers.

When browsing the network, I see the two Windows machines, but no
printers. However, I can telnet (and HTTP) to the printers using the
DHCP assigned IP addresses.

I can't set up the Windows machines to print to the printers since I
can't browse to them, even by address.

We're using a Linksys router, if that makes any difference.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

-Dave

 

[matt]

Is the file/print sharing protocol enabled on your printers. This is
sometimes a part of the wins settings, or called something like smb or
windows share. Make sure that everything, pc's and printers, are in the
same workgroup. But my recommendation on this is to forget trying to
print that way. Print using a standard tcpip port and give the printers
a static IP. Its much simpler and much more reliable. In my opinion,
fwiw, the smb protocol can be very unreliable.

matt