Printable View
hi,
i can share printer in my office. We already have a wireless router(Linksys WRT54G) I get a message at the end that says "No print server port was found"? i have HP J6039C JetDirect 200m print server.I installed the printer drivers via "add a printer" as advised in the manual.Does anyone know what causes this issue and how to fix it?Any help will be extremely appreciated.
Did you get any Admin utilities to help you set it up? They should be able to find the server and help configure it.
Have you gone to the setup page and looked at that?
It's sounding like the print server software in the router is not entirely SMB-compliant, or it's not being detected by your computer. The Windows Printer and File Sharing should automatically detect the device as a shared printer. See if there's an upgraded firmware for your router? Is the router rather old? Microsoft's implementation varied greatly from operating system to operating system, to the point where one couldn't detect shared resources on machines running different versions of Windows
To trace the route from your computer to your print server you can use a handy networking and testing command. Most versions of windows ship with a handy command line IP diagnostic tool : TRACERT. This is also known as Trace Route and is a really easy way to trace routing from A to B on a TCP/IP network and a perfect way of getting more information on why your print server has disappeared off the face of the earth.
Open an MSDOS Prompt and type TRACERT. You should see something like :
C:>tracert
Usage: tracert [-d] [-h maximum_hops] [-j host-list] [-w timeout] target_name
Options:
-d Do not resolve addresses to hostnames.
-h maximum_hops Maximum number of hops to search for target.
-j host-list Loose source route along host-list.
-w timeout Wait timeout milliseconds for each reply.
Now type TRACERT followed by the IP address of your print server. You will now see all of the hops from your computer to the print server. You will also see where the network is failing to route traffic. On small networks this is usually at the local gateway.