I'm not having much success finding documentation about the Apple Airport
base station. From what I can gather, this unit has a USB port and I'm
assuming you have connected the printer to that.
Does the documentation that came with the Airport say anything about how the
USB port is exposed to the network? For example, what protocols does it
support for printers, how do you find out what its IP address is (if it has
one)?
You might see if the Airport Administration Utility for Windows is any help
(
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120093).
Printers are often connected to Ethernet networks by so called "print
servers" - the Airport may provide similar capability. "Print servers" vary
in sophistication, but many are not much more thant a LAN adapter with
enough smarts to extract the print stream from the IP packets and forward it
to the printer. Most support either the Port 9100 protocol or the lpr/lpd
protocol. With Windows XP, you add a "Standard TCP/IP Port" and configure
the IP address of the printer's LAN adapter in that port's configuration and
associate the "Printer" with that Standard TCP/IP Port.
If you can determine the IP address associated with the USB port, using a
Standard TCP/IP Port may work.
You might want to also ask for help in the
microsoft.public.windows.networking.wireless,
microsoft.public.win2000.networking
and
microsoft.public.windowsxp.network_web
newsgroups.
Sorry I can't be more specific.
Bruce Sanderson MVP Printing
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