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Do these exist?

I have discussed this problem before.

I have a shared printer, and HP All-In-One device, USB, shared on a PC now running Windows 7 Pro, 32-bit.

All of my PC's on the network can print from it fine, even the Windows XP machines.

My new laptop, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, can print if connected directly to the printer, but, cannot connect to the shared device, probably due to it being shared on a 32-bit system.

I do not want to lose the scanning capability of this device, so my question is, is there a networkable print server that will allow the scanning capability to still function, that will also allow my 64 bit and 32 bit machines to print to the printer, seeing as how they need different drivers?

I know a standard USB print server will do the printing part fine, but, I don't know about the All-In-One functions.

Thanks.

Thanks very much Scott!

I've been putting up without being able to print for almost a year because I could never get anything to work, and adding the port in the manner you gave above has worked, and I can now print from the 64 bit machine.

I tried at one time to do it this way, but, I didn't know to use the FQDN as the name of the port, so I couldn't continue, because I just didn't know what to call it.

Once again, I've gained well more that I have ever paid for your books thanks to this forum.