Digital BW, The Print

I have XP home. That was my first question so I called the guy, name is 
Mike, that does the network management at a company where I lease office 
space. He is very good and is also Microsoft certified. He told me that 
they will stay on 2000 until the next major release - thus skipping XP 
altogether. He told me the things the changes they made in XP that has 
caused the problems.

They may even skip the next release if it doesn't fix some of the issues 
in XP. They have three major networks he supports. One is a drop for a 
nation wide secure network for data and voice that passes both data and 
Voice over IP. That's is supported by Linux (Intel) boxes and Solaris 
boxes (Sun) and Dec Unix boxes (HP - formally Compac - formally Dec 
Alphas).  The second is the corporate network which and the local 
netowrk. While they have as many boxes and if you consider IP phones 
twice as many boxes on the Unix network as on the network supported by 
the windows boxes - he spends 90% of his time keeping the windows boxes 
up and functioning properly.

I was pulling my hair out getting the XP box to see my other boxes. At 
first following the Windows XP procedure in the wizard I the other boxes 
could see the XP box, get files from the XP disc and put data on the XP 
disc but the XP box could not see the others. Mike and Linksys help me 
figure that out. However, now while at least it can see them it has to 
remap the network every time you try to access the other boxes which 
takes a long time. This is the issue either over a wired network or a 
wireless network. If all the machines are up and running you can force 
XP to map a network drive locally but it doesn't remember it and you 
have to do it by hand each time. Windows 2000 remembers it as does 
cheapo ME.  I must admit it does work marginally better with the XP box 
hooked to an access point via ethernet and let the access point work as 
a DCHP server - but the mapping of networks drives on the XP is still 
very slow and is required every time.

Since the wireless printer is installed as a fixed IP address on the 
network and the print server SW prints to that IP address, XP doesn't 
have the same probelm with the printer since by definition the mapping 
is hardwired.

If I knew I wouldn't have a big driver issue I'd drop back to 2000 in a 
heart beat on the XP box.

Truman


Tom Baker wrote:

>Are you talking about XP Home or XP Pro?
> 
>Tom Baker
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>Truman Prevatt <tprevatt@...> wrote:
>Are you running XP? I had a hell of a time using the USB wireless out of 
>my XP box just for file transfer. It took three days with Linksys 
>support and the network connection to work at all. I worked find with my 
>machine running 2000 but not XP.
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>I hooked the XP box up to an access point via an either net connecton 
>and the wireless print server and it works fine on the 1280.
>
>The issues seem to  be with some of the defaults on XP and XP unlike 
>2000, ME or 98SE hide most of the network settings so they are hard to 
>get to and tweak. Some of the issues I think lie in the XP firewall - 
>new with XP that gets in the way of some network traffic and slows 
>others down. Try turning off the firewall and see if that helps.
>
>I'm not at all happy with the way XP supports network coms. It is one 
>giant step backwards from 2000.
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>Truman
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>rdbaron73102 wrote:
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>>Well, here's a report in continuation of this thread from last week:
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>>Today I unpacked my new Epson 2200 and Linksys Wireless-G USB Network
>>Adapter (Model No. WUSB54G) and Linksys Wireless-G Print Server for
>>USB 2.0 (Model No. WPS54GU2).
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>>After over three hours on the phone with Linksys tech support the
>>devices more or less communicate and I've managed to make one complete
>>5x7 print out of 4 tries (the connection keeps dropping out during the
>>printing process, sometimes with a crash of PS CS as well).
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>>I have my doubts about the wisdom/feasability of this solution.
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>>--Bob
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