We have small Lan Cable Modem -SonicWALL TZ180 -W2K PC wired -Vista PC wired -XP PC wireless -Vista Laptop wireless (2) -HP C6180 Printer wireless All devices are able to obtain an IP from router (TZ 180) No PC/Laptop can see printer. Actually We can see the printer by pinging it's IP, by going to the IP in a web browser. You can telnet into the printer IP:9001 and print directly (i.e. line printing). However if you try to add the printer it is not visible from Windows nor Mac clients All clients have most current driver package from HP
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We connected the printer directly to a desktop PC and enabled sharing initially but that did not work.
This Desktop runs W2K
Having multiple versions of MSW the sharing configuration wants to install drivers of each client. However as the Desktop is W2K even with the most recent HP driver package the sharing configuration does not show anything newer than W2K in the additional driver dialog.
The printer did work previously (substitute Linksys WLAN for TZ 180)
Having spent many hours with both sonicwall and hp it appears that this problem can not currently be resolved.
First the LAN and WLAN portions of the router are on separate networks and you can write as many firewall rules to allow traffic to pass between them but you still won't be able to share a printer among both LAN and WLAN clients. I realize that there obvious concerns about allowing WLAN traffic onto your LAN but it creates problems if you have a wireless laptop, tablet POS etc... that needs to connect to a printer or a file server on the LAN.
Second the only client I could get zeroconf to work on was with a Mac. Great for me because thats what I use but not helpful to the 95% of the worlds Windows users who will have to manually configure a TCP/IP port to access a networked printer.
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