Setting up a print server using XP

[Joe Axisa]

I have set up a wireless network using a linksys router.
I have a printer hooked up to LPT1 and I tried to install
it using a new TCP IP port so the other computers can
share it. I gave the port an IP address but I cannot ping
it. Does the print server have to be actual hardware?


Kindest Regards

Joe Axisa

[Robert L [MS-MVP]]

are you connecting the printer to lpt1 on xp? if yes, you don't have ip for
the printer. you just share it on xp and other computers should see it.

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"Joe Axisa" > wrote in message
...
> I have set up a wireless network using a linksys router.
> I have a printer hooked up to LPT1 and I tried to install
> it using a new TCP IP port so the other computers can
> share it. I gave the port an IP address but I cannot ping
> it. Does the print server have to be actual hardware?
>
>
> Kindest Regards
>
> Joe Axisa