http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22654726 en Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:48:35 EDT Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:48:35 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22654726 WildBill99 : 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.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,22654726 Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:01:30 EDT