WildBill99
join:2003-11-07
Blue Springs, MO
| [Vista] NET Printer Found and Lost
I just got a laptop running vista and connecting to my router wireless.
My win98 machine connectes by ethernet to the router. It is also connected a Brother printer via a parallel cable. The printer also connects to the router via ethernet cable.
When I went to add a printer to the laptop and selected network printer it saw and IDed the Brother and set it up.
However latter I rebooted the router (DSL 2640) and it assigned the printer to a differnt IP addres.
I am wondering if there is a way to have Vista check each time or at least warning me that the printer is offline.
Took me a while to figure out what was going on.
Now Vista won't let me make a lot of changes with responding that I know if I make a mistake that the world will end and that MS knows best what I should want.
But for this is the print job just goes in the spooler and would sit there until I ran of disk space. |
