Connect a printer to Bt Home Hub usb plug and acess the printer on my mac

How about contacting the folks at BT? They should be able to help. (Also you have an iMac and you are posting in the MacBook Pro forum).

I have just called BT and they are sending out an all in one driver disk, they said this should sort out the problem plus it was free as well as the phone call so all you have to loose is your time!

I have a BT Home Hub 2.0 and usually connect my printer to my hub via a LAN cable. However, a friend has just switched to BT and asked me whether this was possible. If you plug in the printer via USB the Homehub Manager page states that +*No USB device connected*+ and if you look on BT's website they say this:

{quote:title=BTs website post:}
The BT Home Hub, including the latest BT Home Hub 2.0, aren't print servers. Connecting a printer to the USB socket won't work, and BT can't help with this.

There are reports from some customers elsewhere on the Internet claiming they've managed to share printers in this way. But the success might be specific to the printer used by these customers, and the Hub doesn't support this feature.
{quote}

However, the following link provides shows that it is possible: http://www.wallaceit.co.uk/witarticle80.aspx

I'd be interested to see if this works.


Cheers.

Message was edited by: LightWithoutHeat

I've just tested the following and it worked without a problem.

1) Add your printer normally as if its attached to your machine.
2) Once added, right click on properties then on the ports tab.
3) Click add port, choose Standard TCP/IP Port, click New Port.
4) Enter 192.168.1.253 as the IP address, and anything you like as the name.
5) Click Custom, then Settings.
6) Choose LPR as protocol Queue Name: LPT1 check LPR byte counting as enabled, click ok.
7) Finish the wizard.

I have a an HP printer and this may not work for you, but I thought that I'd put it out there.

Interestingly, I have my Apple Airport Extreme Basestation connected to my HomeHub via the WAN port, so my wireless network connection is through the airport and on a completely different network IP, 192.168.100.\*, whereas the HomeHub is on a 192.168.1.\* IP range. However, it all worked, which is nice. :O)

Cheers, Light

im trying to do this now on my macbook but I cant get it working.

I have a Canon MP140

Ive tried address 192.168.1.253 and .254(which seems to be my hub address)

and I get hub is busy with .253 and cant connect with .254.

Any advice?

Cheers,

Tom

Hi,
I'm in the same situation, but I can't work out how to get this to work with Snow Leopard. In particular I can't find how to set the LPR byte counting and so on.
I'm a bit of a Mac novice I'm afraid, but I have the Homehub printer working absolutely fine from my XP PC, so all the connections and so on are ok. I just can't work out how to set up the relevant bits from my Mac.
Cheers,
A