[ale] weird printer problem

[Jim Kinney]

that looks like marketing drivel to me.

When you connected to the printer the first time, what did you have to do to
find it and run a test print? Did it "just work" so it was never changed? If
so, that's avahi.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Paul Cartwright <ale at pcartwright.com>wrote:

> On 3/30/2011 1:41 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > So Laptop is wireless and using VPN to offsite location
> > Desktop and printer are wired
> > All 3 are using the same wired/wireless router.
> yes
> >
> > Desktop prints and laptop loses VPN connection.
> >
> > I would suspect a router issue over printer. Maybe the print
> > connection is flaky or the protocol is broken.
> > Is the printer setup using Avahi (apple calls the auto-discovery
> > something else)? The discovery protocol may be trying to probe the
> > laptop to see if it's a printer and the only way the laptop can
> > respond is to drop the VPN.
> samsung uses syncthru web service:
> http://syncthru-web-admin-service.software.informer.com/
>
> I know nothing about it..
>
> --
> Paul Cartwright
>
>


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