In reply to a post by Pipexer:

I don't see how this could be, because if you are in a workgroup and are connecting to "John-PC" then this is single label name and windows will use NetBIOS (broadcast) or LLMNR to resolve the hostname. This would not go out through the default gateway. Also, the Windows Firewall would not be configured to allow file and print sharing out of the local subnet.

Really, im sure you know what you are talking about when it comes to DHCP, NOT.

I run a network with 2753 pieces of equipment, ranging from ip phones, PC's, Scanners, Industrial Network equipment, VPN's, Virtual Gateways and servers, every piece of equipment on that network has a static ip address, trust me i know what im talking about.

Now dont get me wrong DHCP is fine in the home, but not on a large industrial scale, Look at any server farm, oh lets let DHCP manage it, you NOOB.

Hi. New to this forum and looking for some advice on connecting a printer as a network printer to my new brightbox. Up until 10 days ago had a livebox which allowed my Lexmark laser printer to network via USB perfectly, both to a XP desktop (hard wired to box) and laptop (WIN7) on wireless.
Now with brightbox, connected via USB it will not work. Have gone through the setup numeours times, deleted and reinstalled over and over, both via desktop and laptop. Windows recognises the printer and puts drivers in and adds to available printers. So all looks well, but go to print, document goes to printer queue and you can see it as "printing" in the status window, but after 30 secs fails "error". Orange provide no guidance for brightbox to conenct a printer, so only going by old livebox instructions. COnnected to port "192.168.1.1." as a Standard TCP/IP port. Have called Orange and they are adament the brightbox should work and just fob me off with it being a printer manufacturer issue. Any ideas ?

In reply to a post by hammster:

Hi. New to this forum and looking for some advice on connecting a printer as a network printer to my new brightbox. Up until 10 days ago had a livebox which allowed my Lexmark laser printer to network via USB perfectly, both to a XP desktop (hard wired to box) and laptop (WIN7) on wireless.
Now with brightbox, connected via USB it will not work. Have gone through the setup numeours times, deleted and reinstalled over and over, both via desktop and laptop. Windows recognises the printer and puts drivers in and adds to available printers. So all looks well, but go to print, document goes to printer queue and you can see it as "printing" in the status window, but after 30 secs fails "error". Orange provide no guidance for brightbox to conenct a printer, so only going by old livebox instructions. COnnected to port "192.168.1.1." as a Standard TCP/IP port. Have called Orange and they are adament the brightbox should work and just fob me off with it being a printer manufacturer issue. Any ideas ?

Nowhere in the manual does it state that this feature exists, and they'd shout it LOUD if it did. Ergo, I'd say the feature is missing (in fact I tried it here, and no printer was detected).

Give up on it, and save sanity. The feature doesn't seem to be there.

Take care

This site is for home users. So it's a waste of breath generalising, as you've been doing, a rule that applies on your "large industrial scale", even if it were true, to the home.

In reply to a post by XRaySpeX:

This site is for home users. So it's a waste of breath generalising, as you've been doing, a rule that applies on your "large industrial scale", even if it were true, to the home.

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In reply to a post by Pipexer:

I don't see how this could be, because if you are in a workgroup and are connecting to "John-PC" then this is single label name and windows will use NetBIOS (broadcast) or LLMNR to resolve the hostname. This would not go out through the default gateway. Also, the Windows Firewall would not be configured to allow file and print sharing out of the local subnet.

I don't know how or why, but I definately saw it, doing a tracert from Janet-PC tring to find John-PC (which had only just booted up) definately showed external internet address.
I can't re-create the steps on my vista laptop, maybe it was yonks ago when I was using two XP machines.

Whenever I switch on my wireless Vista laptop I get loads (32 this time) of these in the log over the 1st few minutes:

Sun Feb 26 21:36:29 2012 Possible DoS attack detected from 192.168.1.163(MAC Addy)
....
Sun Feb 26 21:28:37 2012 Possible DoS attack detected from 192.168.1.163(MAC Addy)

Doesn't happen when I turn on my wired XP Desktop.

Any ideas why?

No idea why it's doing that - I'd suggest it's clearly a false positive in the first instance, as we have seen the box doesn't seem to have recieved much testing so it's possible the Vista machine is doing something which it thinks is a DoS attack - my neighbour appears to have a Vista laptop so i'll check when I'm next round there - wouldn't surprise me if it was happening there too.

I got my brightbox today and connected a portable hd into the usb port.

My old pc and my son's laptop (both running windows 7 32 bit) read the usb hd fine and can access all files. My computer, which is running windows 7 64bit, can not.

I have not changed any of the modem setting, but in network settings on the 2 working pc's the brightbox is listed as a computer and is accessable, and it's also listed at the bottom under network infrastructure. It's only listed under infrastructure on my pc.

Is the usb port on the brightbox not 64 bit compatable or should i be changing some setting?

Thanks in advance
tractor

Never mind I solved the problem by mapping it as a separate drive using \\BRIGHTBOX\Portable HD (setting taken from my working pc).

Its now listed in 'My Computer' as Z: