Airport Extreme + Printer + Windows PC

[sturm375]

I bit the bullet, and bought the Airport Extreme with the Modem, External Antenne(sp?), and USB Printer port. I thought it would be cool to be able to put my HP Deskjet 5550 on my network and share it between my TiPB, and two PC Desktops. I for the life of me can't figure out how to make the PCs recoginize the printer on the network. Any ideas?

 

[bennetsaysargh]

i don't think the capability for printing from windows is there. sorry

 

[iJon]

im almost positive you cant. there may be a trick though. airport extreme uses the rendezvous protocol for the printer.

iJon

 

[sturm375]

Figures, just when I think I'm being smart, BAM! cross platform incompatibilitites.

 

[bennetsaysargh]

Originally posted by iJon
im almost positive you cant. there may be a trick though. airport extreme uses the rendezvous protocol for the printer.

iJon

maybe if there's a redezvous app, protocol or something like that for windows you can use that

 

[iJon]

well if i remember right windows has had rendezvous a lot longer than us, i think apple has airport extreme support it in a different fashion though. apple does that with lots of things, like with ip over firewire came out everyone got excited, and it had been in windows since version 2000

iJon