hello,
On my local LAN I have an HP printer connected via USB to my iMac and shared with CUPS.
If I try to print with my windows xp laptop (wireless) everyting works fine, but
before I can do that, I need to make sure that the iMac is started before I start
my XP laptop. Otherwise for some reason the XP cannot find the iMac.
Now the iMac's name is 'MAC' (I think this is shared with netbios?). So if I ping
the mac, and it was started after the XP, I get a 169.254... address instead of 192.168...
On the other hand, if I ping and the MAC was started first, I do get a correct IP address.
First I thought it had something to do with DNS, so I did a ipconfig /dnsflush, but this had
no effect. Also I tried to reset the netbios cache with nbtstat -RR, also no result.
And with the command 'netsh int ip reset' I still get the 169 address.
I also thried with a restart of the netbios helper service, but this again had no effect.
Does anyone else have any ideas?
Thanks in advance.