Windows to the Rescue!
Posted by IronMac on January 22nd, 2009
Oh man! I never really thought that I would write those words. For well over an hour this morning, I’ve been trying to print to the old LaserJet 4M+ from this MBP. No go. I kept getting a
“Attempting to connect to host 192.168.1.104 for printer
Network host ‘192.168.1.104′ is busy; will retry in 30 seconds”
message. It seems that this is a common problem or it’s a recurring problem because I’ve found through Google numerous posts about this going back years!
I’ve tried resetting the printing system in OS X a couple of times, pausing and deleting printer jobs, trying different apps and so on. Nothing worked. And I certainly was not going to buy a new printer just because Apple couldn’t get its act together regarding network printing. So, I remembered a site that I used a couple of years back called iFelix and which I had posted about and fired up a WinXP machine. The instructions are meant for 10.4 but there seem to be less steps with 10.5 which is a good thing. So, I am now once again printing through SAMBA.
It’s not the best solution but it’s better than alternatives such as buying a new printer, upgrading the firmware on the router to handle AppleTalk, etc.
January 29th, 2009 at 9:01 am
tis is 1 stupid kb . u shd have stuck with a nec