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#26
Sounds good so far Mutant. 
Help with printer sharing on Window Vista
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#27
Quote Originally Posted by Lippsman:
Sounds good so far Mutant.
Thanks Lippsman...
Figured between the 2 of us, we can help out a fellow covers brother. I am still in confusion how the XP pc is pulling an IP from the router's internal DHCP and the Vista is pulling a public routable IP from the same router, and they both can get out to the internet. I have never came across a case like this, have you? Than again it's easier to diagnose something when it is in front of you.
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#29
I was thinking something on the Vista side also. I setup a friends home network and he had Vista. I had issues with the router he had. I told him to go buy a Linksys router, because I got him setup on my wireless, but couldn't get him connected to his by DHCP. He had some cheap Netgear. I told him to go buy the same Linksys I had and he was up and running no time with his Vista. Vista is a beast. Where I work, when we get PCs or laptops with Vista, we have a call in already for the XP restore disks. Vista hasn't played well with other OS, applications, or hardware (routers, firewalls, etc)
I have also read security in Vista and some 3rd party security suites cause major issues. The way problems have come about, it looks as if Vista came out overnight and everyone is trying to meet requirements/compatibilites. Than again Microsoft can do whatever they want and everyone will follow to suit them.
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#30
I was just thinking, you are using external DNS. You won't be able to use the \\computername\printername. You will have to use \\XP IP address\printername. Ex 192.168.1.101\Printer. The external DNS IPs (Public DNS servers) can not resolve internal names for IP addresses. Sorry I am use to a domain structure with internal DNS servers. Sorry a brain fart.
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#33
Lipps,
I can't see how using another set of ethernet cable would help because I'm able to sign on the internet with both computers.
MB,
I double checked with the names of the XP computer and the printer share name already but still cannot search for it. Is there any other possible way I can install the printer. That's the only laser printer I have in my home and it's very annoying that every time I need to print something, I have to save it onto my flash drive and bring it over to the other room to print.
Thanks in advance!!!
I can't see how using another set of ethernet cable would help because I'm able to sign on the internet with both computers.
MB,
I double checked with the names of the XP computer and the printer share name already but still cannot search for it. Is there any other possible way I can install the printer. That's the only laser printer I have in my home and it's very annoying that every time I need to print something, I have to save it onto my flash drive and bring it over to the other room to print.
Thanks in advance!!!
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#34
Quote Originally Posted by richardtonsj:
Lipps,
I can't see how using another set of ethernet cable would help because I'm able to sign on the internet with both computers.
MB,
I double checked with the names of the XP computer and the printer share name already but still cannot search for it. Is there any other possible way I can install the printer. That's the only laser printer I have in my home and it's very annoying that every time I need to print something, I have to save it onto my flash drive and bring it over to the other room to print.
Thanks in advance!!!
Lipps,
I can't see how using another set of ethernet cable would help because I'm able to sign on the internet with both computers.
MB,
I double checked with the names of the XP computer and the printer share name already but still cannot search for it. Is there any other possible way I can install the printer. That's the only laser printer I have in my home and it's very annoying that every time I need to print something, I have to save it onto my flash drive and bring it over to the other room to print.
Thanks in advance!!!
Wait a minute, how in the heck can you sign onto the internet with an IP address starting with 169????
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#35
i plugged my new Dell directly into the modem/router and it works. I didint even knoe about the IP until MB showed me how to check it.
It is true Lipps. At the time when I checked the IP of the Vista, it did have the IP starting with 169.xxx while the XP has the normal IP of 192.xxx.
The weird part was that both are using the same modem router and I did not configure the IP when I connected it.
It is true Lipps. At the time when I checked the IP of the Vista, it did have the IP starting with 169.xxx while the XP has the normal IP of 192.xxx.
The weird part was that both are using the same modem router and I did not configure the IP when I connected it.
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