Well, that's an interesting network quirk...
I found a decent deal on a laser printer with a built in network card. Free shipping and a nice little Newegg.com deal that added a 2 gig flash drive in for nothing. (That's a nice step up from the 256 MB one I've been using for years.) It even got here surprisingly fast. (Just got tracking information yesterday and came home to the UPS "We were here and you weren't" note on the door.)
So, of course, right away I go to play with it.
The fact that it's a network printer means I can keep it over on the table with all of the other networked stuff an I only have to worry about tripping over the power cord for my laptop. This excites me. I remember paying almost half (maybe more) of what this printer cost about six or seven years ago for a wireless print server thingy to plug into the printer up at my parent's place so everyone could use it.
Here's where things get a little screwy.
Plugged in via USB, the printer, of course, worked perfectly. That is good. That puts it way ahead of the much more expensive All-in-One printer I got a few years ago which no longer prints (but still happily uses ink if you try to print).
Plugged the printer into the router, watched all the pretty lights blink the right way, and attempted to detect it using the nifty programs Samsung included with the printer. Got absolutely nothing.
Checked all the settings. Manually set the IP address of the printer (so there would be no question where on the network it was). Everything seemed in order. Still nothing.
Not too long ago, after a pointless search through Samsung's support website. I decided to try something a little screwy.
I turned off my laptop's wireless and plugged the thing right into the router.
Bingo. Perfect communication with the LAN printer.
Double checked all the settings. Everything worked. Spectacular.
Switch back to wireless... and nothing.
Now I'm wracking my brain to try to figure out why it'll talk through the router via the hard connection but not over the wireless. Everything else works fine over the wireless.
I'm guessing it's some sort of obscure firewall setting somewhere.
If anyone has any ideas or has seen something like this before, a nudge in the right direction would be much appreciated. (Though I'm sure I'll puzzle it out eventually, no matter what... at least it gives me something to keep me occupied...)
Gotta love technology. :)
So, of course, right away I go to play with it.
The fact that it's a network printer means I can keep it over on the table with all of the other networked stuff an I only have to worry about tripping over the power cord for my laptop. This excites me. I remember paying almost half (maybe more) of what this printer cost about six or seven years ago for a wireless print server thingy to plug into the printer up at my parent's place so everyone could use it.
Here's where things get a little screwy.
Plugged in via USB, the printer, of course, worked perfectly. That is good. That puts it way ahead of the much more expensive All-in-One printer I got a few years ago which no longer prints (but still happily uses ink if you try to print).
Plugged the printer into the router, watched all the pretty lights blink the right way, and attempted to detect it using the nifty programs Samsung included with the printer. Got absolutely nothing.
Checked all the settings. Manually set the IP address of the printer (so there would be no question where on the network it was). Everything seemed in order. Still nothing.
Not too long ago, after a pointless search through Samsung's support website. I decided to try something a little screwy.
I turned off my laptop's wireless and plugged the thing right into the router.
Bingo. Perfect communication with the LAN printer.
Double checked all the settings. Everything worked. Spectacular.
Switch back to wireless... and nothing.
Now I'm wracking my brain to try to figure out why it'll talk through the router via the hard connection but not over the wireless. Everything else works fine over the wireless.
I'm guessing it's some sort of obscure firewall setting somewhere.
If anyone has any ideas or has seen something like this before, a nudge in the right direction would be much appreciated. (Though I'm sure I'll puzzle it out eventually, no matter what... at least it gives me something to keep me occupied...)
Gotta love technology. :)