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Can you get Airport Disk and Base Station Printer to work under Parallels?
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markw10
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Apr 8, 2007, 03:06 AM
 
I just bought a new Airport Extreme Base Station and have a USB hub on it and it is connected to a USB Drive as well as a USB Printer. My Macbook Pro recognizes both of these items without any problems at all.
The problem is I'm running Windows XP under Parallels. I have installed the WinXP part of the Airport software. When I go through the Bonjour printer setup it finds my printer for a split second and then when I try to install a driver it says the printer no longer exists.
As well, when I try to set up the airport disk it finds the disk but then won't accept my password so I'm unable to connect.
I know this isn't a problem with my airport setup. I have a Windows XP desktop that connects to both my USB drive as well as the USB printer through the network (airport). Does anyone else have this problem or know what I could be doing wrong?
     
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Apr 8, 2007, 06:49 AM
 
Have you tried finding the printer using XP with JUST the printer connected to the Extreme? I'm thinking that, since both the printer and the drive are on a hub that XP can't properly enumerate them and it just gives up.
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