Greetings. I have a laptop with Vista connected to my home network
via a wireless router (Netgear WGR614 v8). I have a hardware Ethernet
print server (a Trendnet TE100-PU/A: http://www.trendnet.com/products/TE100-P1U.htm),
connected to the router (LAN port #1, which shows link light) and I
have a USB printer (an HP PhotoSmart 8250) connected to the print
server.
Although I can browse and see the printer in Vista, I cannot actually
connect. I get the error message:
Windows cannot connect to printer.
Make sure you have typed the name
correctly, and printer is connected to
the network
(and all that is OK, of course). I get the same result if I manually
enter the \\server\printer (either by name or IP address).
For the heck of it, I tried mapping it to a LPT port:
net use lpt2 \\192.168.1.100\U1 /persistent:yes
and was told that Vista could not complete the operation; error code
was 0x00000057.
I CAN ping the print server from the laptop. The laptop has Mcafee
installed but it is completely disabled during my efforts.
I have connected the printer directly to the laptop (which works
fine). I have installed the latest Vista drivers from HP's website.
All of this is fairly new gear with ordinary (default) connection and
configuration.
Can anyone give me any idea why I'm having this problem? This should
be so simple!!!!
Thanks!!!
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