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I've been using a DLink DPR1260.
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:44:16 -0500, guido.munzi wrote: Hello people, do you know any print server supporting Vista 64? ty Guido -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP Expert Zone & Vista Community Columnist http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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Hey Barb, I recently bought a DPR1260 and it works fine with my XP machine.
I downloaded the later firmware (1.21) and my Vista machine could see it in the browser (had to use IP address, but I have that mac always getting same address) ... but printing fails. Got a good starting point to debug this? I do not see anything in my network neighborhood (on XP or Vista) ... but on XP, I can bring it up with url: http://dlink-fbfdf4/ and on Vista, I have to use the IP address. Network in WindowsExplorer in Vista does show DPR1260:dlink-fdfbf4, but for some reason, I cannot get there by any permutation of that from the browser. I can get to the browser via IP (which is how I set up the printers) ... but again, I am not printing. Any discussion of places to start looking would be apprcieated. Tx. "Barb Bowman" wrote: I've been using a DLink DPR1260. |
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did you give it a static IP?
were the printer drivers already on the Vista PC? On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:38:05 -0700, MikeC wrote: Hey Barb, I recently bought a DPR1260 and it works fine with my XP machine. I downloaded the later firmware (1.21) and my Vista machine could see it in the browser (had to use IP address, but I have that mac always getting same address) ... but printing fails. Got a good starting point to debug this? I do not see anything in my network neighborhood (on XP or Vista) ... but on XP, I can bring it up with url: http://dlink-fbfdf4/ and on Vista, I have to use the IP address. Network in WindowsExplorer in Vista does show DPR1260:dlink-fdfbf4, but for some reason, I cannot get there by any permutation of that from the browser. I can get to the browser via IP (which is how I set up the printers) ... but again, I am not printing. Any discussion of places to start looking would be apprcieated. Tx. "Barb Bowman" wrote: I've been using a DLink DPR1260. -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |
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Ah, before reading this ... I was perplexed by inability to bring up the web
interface by anything but the IP. Anyway, being new to Vista ... I had some fun with security but ... I updated the hosts file (ran my favorite editor gvim as administrator) with the static ip that I assign to the print server .... (and used the name that the printers got defined with along with a few other nicnames I like to use) ... and voila ... it does indeed work well. Jury is still out on Vista (I'll probably grow to like it more as I use it more) ... but the print server is now functional from my XP and my Vista machine. Thanks, PS. But I wish the DPR-1260 would work with a larger array of devices and see my cheap HP 3 in 1 and my cheap Brother 4 in 1 as multiFunction instead of just printers ... but I digress. "Barb Bowman" wrote: did you give it a static IP? were the printer drivers already on the Vista PC? |
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thanks for reporting back on your success.
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:24:02 -0700, MikeC wrote: the print server is now functional from my XP and my Vista machine. -- Barb Bowman MS Windows-MVP http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/ |