Printer sharing with dual band

[Bikester]

Hi, all. Just joined this forum, lots of good tips. But, I have been searching high and low and cannot find any help with my situation.

I just got a new Dual Band Wireless Router (D-link dir-815). Because of where my cable connection is, the router is not connected to a computer, and I connect wireless via my 3 computers. My main computer is using the 5ghz network, and has the printer connected to it. The other two computers are on the 2.5 Ghz network. How can I get these two computer to connect to the printer? Any thoughts?

thank you, Jonathan

 

[overdrive31]

D-Link's dual band routers have a security feature for wireless clients called WLAN partition, it's possible it is on by default and basically is forcing each client to be in it's own network VLAN to protect it's data from other clients. Go into the routers settings and look under Advanced>advanced wireless and uncheck the WLAN Partition settings for both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz radios. Oops! guess the 815 doesn't have the feature setting for WLAN Partition according to their firmware emulator, was going by the settings available on the 825 version.

You're going to need to setup printer sharing on the computer with the printer, then choose the shared printer on the other two computers.

 

[Bikester]

Wow, thanks for the fast reply!

That Wlan option sounds good, too bad I don't have it.

I have shared out the printer, and some other folders - but the other computers cannot even see my computer. Any further details on how to set this up?

thank you

 

[overdrive31]

All three need to be on the same workgroup network(assuming windows pc's) and have file and printer sharing enabled. What operating system does each computer have?

 

[Bikester]

Hi - thanks again. I have Vista (hopefully upgrading to 7 soon) as the Printer system, XP is my media computer, and the laptop is also Vista.

The workgroups will work even though the networks are technically different networks?

 

[overdrive31]

The SSID of both the 2.4GHz and 5GHz radio's might be different, but they are using the same DHCP server and network subnet thus are on same network.

Try opening a cmd prompt on each to ipconfig and find the IP address of one another, then ping one to the other to confirm connectivity.

If connectivity isn't an issue, which it shouldn't. I would say it's just a configuration problem, many have said when adding a printer to not choose Network printer, but Local instead. Then select create new port and enter the network location of the printer e.g. \\HOMEPC\Printer2

 

[Bikester]

Thank you, I'll try that as soon as I can.
Cheers,