Network attached printer

[Irish Shark]

Hi All,

Have a glitch in Windows 7 RC. I have a Samsung ML-1740 Laser printer attached to a Linksys PSUS4 4 port switch with usb print server. I have tried to use the Universal Print Driver/The Vista Driver and point to the PSUS4 using the assigned static IP address. This configuration works perfectly with Win2K as well as WinXP. I can not get this to work with Windows 7. I am leaning toward the driver not being compatible with Windows 7, any thoughts??

As usual, thanks in advance.

[NooNoo]

Have you got a Vista installation you can check this against? It may be a Vista problem as well... need to confirm that.

[slgrieb]

Windows 7 has native support for several of Samsung's ML series printers with both PCL6 and PS, so you might try using one of them to see if you get output.

[Irish Shark]

If I plug the usb printer directly in to the computer running Windows7, it works fine. But when I move the port to the IP address, It does not print. I set the exact settings that works with XP, but can not get it to work with Win7. And no, I do not have a Vista box to see if it also has a problem. I guess I could shre the printer on the Home Server and just point it there?

[slgrieb]

You say the settings on the Win7 machine are the same. Does that mean you've configured the tcp/ip port as a LPR port using P1 (the normal default name for the Linksys) as the que name on the Win7 computer? This works in Vista and should in Win7 as well.

[Irish Shark]

I don't have a Vista box in this network to check to see if it also affects Vista. And yes, I have all the IP's and LPR settings exactly the same as in the Win2K and WinXP boxes that work. Still no joy. Is there a generic driver that I can try other than the Samsung drivers?

[NooNoo]

try it as a hp laserjet II... or text printer.

[Irish Shark]

OK, here is how I got it to work..... installed a generic text printer to the ip address, then I plugged the Samsung printer in using a USB cable. I let windows install the printer, which it used the Samsung generic universal driver, once installed, I got into the printer properties (the generic Samsung Universal Driver will only let you into the printer properties as long as it is attached with a USB cable) and changed the port from the USB to the IP port I created for the text only printer. It now works, but the only way into the printer properties is to hook it up with a USB cable. I think that this is a limitation of the Universal Print driver, so I am going to say that the whole problem was a limitation of a driver.

[NooNoo]

Certainly sounds that way. Glad you got it working though.