I was able to do this with XP and Vista (Vista surprisingly was less of a pain to get it working)

but I just installed Windows 7 and am having trouble getting it to work. What I want is to connect my laptop DIRECTLY to my printer via ethernet cable. I don't want the router involved at all.

I know what the IP # is for the printer, got that info from the printer menu. It also gave the subnet mask.

Anyone know the process for doing this in Windows 7?
I've tried adding a printer with TCP/IP and I put in the IP info and it still won't connect and print a test page.

10/28/2009 3:20:13 PM

Yeah this isn't going to work without a router or switch between them.

You could use a crossover to do it, as long as they both have static ip's.

Why not just use a usb cable?

[Edited on October 28, 2009 at 4:50 PM. Reason : *]

10/28/2009 4:50:12 PM

I'd first start by making sure you can even ping the printer's IP from your laptop. It's a pretty straightforward process -- you add a local printer then add the tcpip port and query the printer for the driver.

^ I assume since he's had it set up before that his ethernet devices are autosensing.

10/28/2009 4:54:54 PM

yea it definitely works, unless Windows 7 took away the capability, which I would kinda doubt



i figured out the problem....im a tard

when i saw the IP address, one of the numbers was listed as xxx.xxx.022.xxx and of course i proceeded to enter the 0 when i typed it into the new port

>.<

[Edited on October 28, 2009 at 7:18 PM. Reason : ]

10/28/2009 7:02:24 PM

Always so quick to blame Windows

10/28/2009 8:47:33 PM

who blamed Windows?

10/28/2009 8:49:06 PM

I'm just giving you shit for no good reason

10/28/2009 8:50:20 PM