I have a Win7pro machine on a wireless network. And have a network printer attached to the Ethernet card of the same Win7 machine. I am sharing the printer on the wireless network but am having connectivity issues. The printer is on the same subnet as is used by the wireless network. (Windows reports this Ethernet segment as an unidentified network) I'm wondering if this Ethernet segment should be made a different subnet. And if so, how to have windows connect the two so the printer gets shared on the wireless network.
how to use a wireless Win7 to share a wired printer on a wireless network
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James Mason
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You'll have to disable the firewall on the windows 7 computer I believe.
Your windows computer will also ALWAYS have to be on so connectivity can be shared.
When adding the printer to the windows 7 computer, there should have been an option to share the printer on the network.
You'll have to right click the printer and check it's properties share settings as well.
Your windows computer will also ALWAYS have to be on so connectivity can be shared.
When adding the printer to the windows 7 computer, there should have been an option to share the printer on the network.
You'll have to right click the printer and check it's properties share settings as well.
Thanks kanewolf. The wireless network is AC and signal strength is very strong. Yet connectivity to the workstation sharing the printer is going thru some sort of intermittent conflict. Sometimes visible. Sometimes inaccessible. So I am suspecting a networking issue perhaps caused by having both Wireless AC network card and Gigabit Ethernet network card both running on the same subnet. I have also thought about James Mason's observation regarding firewall. At one time the sharing Win7 machine was running a Norton provided by Comcast to its customers. That started crashing so I removed it and installed MS Security Essentials to keep a security up and running. So, if the uninstall of Norton left behind some grip on firewall settings, I'd have to explore how to undo that.
James Mason
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I was actually talking about Windows Firewall under the Control Panel.
That will prevent you from doing a lot of networking things.
Wireless signals don't transmit through a lot of walls very good though anyways. You could try to move them to another subnet.
One thing I know about wireless routers, is there speed is only as fast as the SLOWEST connected wireless device. So if you have ANY B/G/N device on a mixed mode wireless network, it will treat the entire network as the slowest one of those.
I was wondering why my wireless computers weren't getting the local speed they should, read some articles and found out that by forcing my router to only transmit N speeds, I could get the full bandwidth, but this blocked my other wireless devices, like my iphone, laptop and gameboy, from being able to access the network.
That will prevent you from doing a lot of networking things.
Wireless signals don't transmit through a lot of walls very good though anyways. You could try to move them to another subnet.
One thing I know about wireless routers, is there speed is only as fast as the SLOWEST connected wireless device. So if you have ANY B/G/N device on a mixed mode wireless network, it will treat the entire network as the slowest one of those.
I was wondering why my wireless computers weren't getting the local speed they should, read some articles and found out that by forcing my router to only transmit N speeds, I could get the full bandwidth, but this blocked my other wireless devices, like my iphone, laptop and gameboy, from being able to access the network.
Thanks. Your observations are helpful. Unable to find anything obvious going on with the Windows firewall, that's why I wondered about the removed Norton Security Suite still had some config plugged into the firewall settings (These programs tend to take over the firewall operations)
The router I am using now is the new 802.11 AC. It appears to be able to handle differing protocol connection speed levels. The machine that I have been struggling with has a printer connected via gigabit Ethernet wired connection. The wireless AC connection is connecting at about 870 MB. I had read some forums suggesting that taking control of the metric settings on the network interface connections might resolve a problem that sounded like it could be my situation. Left to Windows to assign things dynamically, the faster connection will be chosen, in my case the Gigabit wired connection to the printer. So in the properties of the TCP/IPv4 protocol on each NIC, under advanced settings, I removed the check from Automatic Metric and manually set the Interface Metric so that the Wireless NIC (connection to the network) is set at 1 and the Wired NIC (connection to the shared printer) is set to a higher number. This is supposed to force Windows to choose (in my case here described) the Wireless NIC first and then look for the Wired (Printer) NIC 2nd.
I tried that last night and so far, have not had the Printer Sharing Workstation disappear or become inaccessible on the home network. Will have to watch it a few days to see if it remains constant / stable.
The router I am using now is the new 802.11 AC. It appears to be able to handle differing protocol connection speed levels. The machine that I have been struggling with has a printer connected via gigabit Ethernet wired connection. The wireless AC connection is connecting at about 870 MB. I had read some forums suggesting that taking control of the metric settings on the network interface connections might resolve a problem that sounded like it could be my situation. Left to Windows to assign things dynamically, the faster connection will be chosen, in my case the Gigabit wired connection to the printer. So in the properties of the TCP/IPv4 protocol on each NIC, under advanced settings, I removed the check from Automatic Metric and manually set the Interface Metric so that the Wireless NIC (connection to the network) is set at 1 and the Wired NIC (connection to the shared printer) is set to a higher number. This is supposed to force Windows to choose (in my case here described) the Wireless NIC first and then look for the Wired (Printer) NIC 2nd.
I tried that last night and so far, have not had the Printer Sharing Workstation disappear or become inaccessible on the home network. Will have to watch it a few days to see if it remains constant / stable.
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