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[morrislevy]

Hello All,

I have been struggling with setting up my Epson Stylus CX7400 as a
USB Printer to the Maxtor Central Axis NAS 1TB model. There is little
documentation on Mac networked USB printers running through a linear
setup.

Here's what I tried so far:

My machine: //Beast-Machine

Maxtor Central Axis: //AXIS-OF-EVIL @ 192.168.1.100

I tried TCP/IP printer on Mac Printer & Fax setup, as well as
other "Epson TCP/IP". Also, another venue was trying to change the
location of the printer to be //192.168.1.100 but that seemed to be not
recognized.

Help!

--Morris
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Mac OSX 10.5.6 Leopard
iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz
Maxtor Central Axis NAS 1TB

[ChrisS]

Hi,

Does this help?

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3049

Note that the URL would be:

smb://<hostname>/<printername>

-c

[morrislevy]

Hello Chris,

Okay, so I read thru the Apple walkthrough, and set it up properly, I hope.

smb://AXIS-OF-EVIL/USB2.0MFP__1

It seemed to work... The Maxtor Central Axis had a login password, and everything looked good until I tried it.  Upon testing, I got these two errors.

"Connection failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME"

"/Library/Printers/EPSON/InkjetPrinter/Filter/rastertoescp.app/Contents/MacOS/rastertoescp failed"

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Here are my settings:

User Accounts   document.write(status_populate_accounts());

Morris

Network Settings  

Drive IP Address:

192.168.1.100

Subnet Mask:

255.255.255.0

Default Gateway:

192.168.1.1

USB Devices Attached Storage Devices

Capacity Drive

Partitions File Syste

No USB storage device currently connected.

Printing Devices Manufacturer Model Serial

USB2.0MFP__1

EPSON

Stylus Storage

4C3634303346A15D74

 

EPSON

USB2.0 MFP_Hi-Speed_

4C3634303346A15D7

Thanks again.

[ChrisS · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Is it showing 2 devices on the printer section of the status screen? I don't think that printer is going to work. Looks like the MCA is confused by the multifunction printer.

-c

[morrislevy]

Correct, yes, the printer is listed as two separate USB devices.  Thanks for the help, Chris.