wireless printer

Doug Stewart doug.dastew at gmail.com
Tue Sep 29 22:21:34 UTC 2015


I found a workaround
I went into the desktop and turned on "allow printing from the internet"
So now my laptops can see the printer through my desktop and when you use
that
we now have printing from each laptop.

But I still think we should be able to print directly.
Doug

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Frank Morris <morris.frank.a at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Is your router denying wireless nodes? You want your router to allow the
>> wireless clients to interact with one another. Most default settings do not
>> allow wireless clients to interact with other wireless clients.
>>
>>
>
> I am able to see the printer at 192.168.1.115 from my desk top and from my
> laptops. So from a wireless laptop I can login to the wireless printer.
> I am using ubuntu 15.04 on this laptop and 14.04 on others.
>
> So I think the router is not denying wireless nodes.
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> doug
>
>>
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Doug Stewart <doug.dastew at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have a canon mg2920 printer and it is a wireless printer.
>> I went through its installation instructions and it works fine from my
>> desktop to the printer through
>> my N mode wireless home router.
>>
>> Now I have also got a laptop ( actually 3 laptops all have the same
>> problem)  and the laptop works fine using my wireless router for internet
>> etc.
>> But the laptop will not print to the wireless printer, it will print to
>> my old network printer.
>>
>> So the printer sees the network fine and works from my wired desktop but
>> not from my wireless
>> laptops.
>>
>> What should I do to make it work?
>>
>> I have spent hrs. googling and trying but no luck!!!
>>
>> Doug Stewart London Ont.
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