Please Help with HP Color Jet 3600N Networking Issue

[justcrash]

Hello all, a friend asked me to help him out with this and I am stumped.

He has two XP Pro machines, in two different locations in his place. They are connected as such:

DSL>Linksys 4 port Hub (which one PC goes directly into) and then in another location a Netgear 5 port FS105 hub. His second PC accesses the net via the netgear device, and this PC is the one the HP Color Jet 3600N is installed on and connected directly to, via a USB connection. It works like a charm on this PC.

The other PC (on the linksys) can access the shared drives on the second PC and vice-versa, no issues.

However, the shared 3600N does not show on the first PC at all. He installed the software on both PCs but for some reason the HP does not show.

He asked me to help and I couldn't get it to show (it is set to share).

If you skipped all of that, the short version: The 3600N is not showing up as a shared printer on one of the two PCs.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

 

[bruceb]

Why go crazy setting it up with USB when the printer has Ethernet connectivity built in ?
Just plug it into a network jack on the switch. It will get an IP from the switch. From the
printer, determine what id it got, then just create a printer on the 2 computers using a
Name for the printer and that IP address .. much easier and sure to work. Also, and this
would apply no matter how you do it, to share the printer, both computers & the printer
should all be in the same computer Work Group and within the same IP range. By doing
it the way you have it, the computer where the printer is connected needs to be ON.
My way, only the Printer need be on in order to print to it from either computer.

 

[justcrash]

Originally posted by: bruceb
Why go crazy setting it up with USB when the printer has Ethernet connectivity built in ?
Just plug it into a network jack on the switch. It will get an IP from the switch. From the
printer, determine what id it got, then just create a printer on the 2 computers using a
Name for the printer and that IP address .. much easier and sure to work. Also, and this
would apply no matter how you do it, to share the printer, both computers & the printer
should all be in the same computer Work Group and within the same IP range. By doing
it the way you have it, the computer where the printer is connected needs to be ON.
My way, only the Printer need be on in order to print to it from either computer.

How do I create the printer on the two PCs (never done that before)?

 

[bruceb]

This will walk you thru it .. It is very easy to do.

http://www.dummies.com/WileyCD....id-363,subcat-OS.html