Thanks if you have the chance to look at this and make any sense out of it. USB C Printer Cable & USB C MIDI CableThis cable connects USB-C enabled devices (MacBook Pro, Surface Book 2, Chromebook Pixel. SO, what all this comes down to is one question: why, when Mac1 is connected via the ethernet cable will the printer not show under Shared and not accept and print jobs from Mac1 which it previously did for several years? Shared > Mac1 and Mac2, and the printer, and the printer accepts jobs from this computer. Shared > Mac1, Mac2, and the printer and the printer accepts print jobs from this computer. Shared > Mac2 & MBA show, but no printer shows Print & Scan Preferences Pane shows my Brother HL-2270DW with a green dot and “idle” and the printer will print. However, with Mac1 CONNECTED TO THE ROUTER VIA WIFI and the ethernet cable disconnected everything works just fine here are the results: Under Shared > Mac1 and Mac2, and the printer. Under Shared > Mac1, Mac2, and the printer show. However, the printer icon appears in the dock with a lightning symbol in a yellow circle and opening it reveals: The printer is not connected. Sending a print job to the printer results in that dot turning to yellow/in use. Checking the Print & Scan pane of Sys Prefs, the printer shows green dot/idle. After proper set-up you should be able to open and talk to the printer directly. The Mac1 shows but the Shared category does not even appear in the Sidebar. Connect a computer directly to an Ethernet printer using a crossover cable For example if the printer was set to 192.168.192. With Mac1 CONNECTED TO THE ROUTER VIA AN ETHERNET CABLE, and with the Finder preferences for all computers set to show everything in the Finder sidebar here are the results: Trying to fix the printer I noticed this: Click the Apple icon on the top left corner of your screen. Plug the Ethernet cable into the internet connection or other device you wish to connect, then plug it into your Mac's Ethernet adaptor.
All the details of the printing problem and efforts to solve it are available via the above URL on the All Things Macintosh forum here. Connect your adaptor to your Mac via the corresponding port such as USB or Thunderbolt. From one day to the next, I could no longer print and Air Drop stopped working. I could use AirDrop between any of the computers & I could print from any of the computers. Last week, before the problem with the printer began, this LAN was working just fine. What I have been running for about two years, problem free, is a Verizon-supplied Actiontec MI424WR Wireless Broadband Router Revision E connected to Mac1 via an ethernet cable the other two Macs connected via their Airport cards to the Wireless router. I have spent the better part of two hours testing all the connections and trying to carefully and logically describe this problem so that one of your router/network gurus might be able to see something which I am missing.Īctiontec MI424WR Wireless Broadband Router Revision E However, I am beginning to suspect the problem is not with the printer but with my network. I have been dealing with a problem I am experiencing connecting to my printer which had been working just fine for several years.
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