On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 18:00:27 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Bill W
wrote:

I have an OKI C5600 printer on my home network. The two computers
which connect to it run Windows 10 and XP. The most uptodate driver
available for the printer is Windows 8.1. It's printing of Windows 10
but won't accept anything from XP. I suspect the problem is a clash of
network security policies but so far I haven't been able to find any
user interface for this in W10. Frustrating.

Is the XP computer looking for the wrong printer IP address, because
it changed?

it's not hard to find devices on a network, regardless of ip address.

If he set up a static IP for the printer, and the printer is connected
directly to the network, not one of the computers, and the IP changed,
I don't think the XP computer can find it.

it can with bonjour, without the user having to muck around configuring
things. once again, let the computer do the work *for* you.

Never heard of it before. Have you used it on Windows PC's? Does it
work well? Easy to use?