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I have a Brother laser printer attached via the USB port of my iMac (G5) which I am sharing (peer to peer). Printing works fine on that iMac and by others on the network (ie. from my laptop via a wireless network) but when the iMac sleeps the printer is no longer recognized by other computers on the network. I just need to wake up the iMac by moving the mouse and the printer is again seen immediately by others on the network. The funny part is that I have set the iMac to not sleep at all (in Energy Saver - Put the computer to sleep when it is inactive for: is set to Never and the box stating "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" is not checked. I do have the display going to sleep if the computer is inactive for a few minutes but this shouldn't prevent the printer from being seen by the network - should it??). This did not happen on my G4 iMac - maybe I'll switch the printer back to that computer!
Anybody out there have any ideas about what I can do to prevent this from happenning???? Please help...
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Printer sharing issues via peer to peer network
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smax013 
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Posted 08 October 2007 - 07:49 PM
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I have a Brother laser printer attached via the USB port of my iMac (G5) which I am sharing (peer to peer). Printing works fine on that iMac and by others on the network (ie. from my laptop via a wireless network) but when the iMac sleeps the printer is no longer recognized by other computers on the network. I just need to wake up the iMac by moving the mouse and the printer is again seen immediately by others on the network. The funny part is that I have set the iMac to not sleep at all (in Energy Saver - Put the computer to sleep when it is inactive for: is set to Never and the box stating "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" is not checked. I do have the display going to sleep if the computer is inactive for a few minutes but this shouldn't prevent the printer from being seen by the network - should it??). This did not happen on my G4 iMac - maybe I'll switch the printer back to that computer!
Anybody out there have any ideas about what I can do to prevent this from happenning???? Please help...
I have a Brother laser printer attached via the USB port of my iMac (G5) which I am sharing (peer to peer). Printing works fine on that iMac and by others on the network (ie. from my laptop via a wireless network) but when the iMac sleeps the printer is no longer recognized by other computers on the network. I just need to wake up the iMac by moving the mouse and the printer is again seen immediately by others on the network. The funny part is that I have set the iMac to not sleep at all (in Energy Saver - Put the computer to sleep when it is inactive for: is set to Never and the box stating "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" is not checked. I do have the display going to sleep if the computer is inactive for a few minutes but this shouldn't prevent the printer from being seen by the network - should it??). This did not happen on my G4 iMac - maybe I'll switch the printer back to that computer!
Anybody out there have any ideas about what I can do to prevent this from happenning???? Please help...
Have you tried going into the Energy Saver pref in System Prefs and selecting in the Options tab...then make sure the "Wake for Ethernet network administrator access" is checked? I don't know if that will help or not...but give it a try.
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Posted 09 October 2007 - 08:43 PM
There's no schedules set in the Energy Saver options is there? You don't have the password box set in the Security settings for waking/sleeping your computer do you? This too can cause this sometimes I think, also check to make sure that it's not auto logging you out after 60 minutes and that automatic login isn't disabled, you don't have to have it set in Users pref, but here it seems better to have this unchecked. If all those are unchecked then I don't know what could be causing it, as I don't use P2P sharing.
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