How to connect to your Netgear WGPS606 print server in Windows Vista or Windows 7

Posted on July 6th, 2010 webmaster 10 comments          Print

In Windows XP connecting to the Netgear WGPS606 wireless printer server is pretty simple, you connect to it the same way you connect to a Windows print server, using the UNC path (i.e. \\print_server_name_or_ip).  In Windows Vista or Windows 7, however, this won’t work.

I actually first ran into this problem about a year ago when I upgraded to Windows Vista.  I then did a fresh install of Windows 7 a few months ago and I finally had to actually print something over the weekend (tickets) and completely forgot how I did it the first time.  So after a few minutes of searching around I found the guide I used last time: http://help.lockergnome.com/vista/Netgear-Server-Vista–ftopict17927.html

I missed an important step while I was reading the instructions from this site this time and I was going crazy trying to figure it out for quite a while (I forgot to check the “LPR Byte Counting Enabled” option, causing my print jobs to not fully complete, it will print about 2/3 of the page then stops).  So I decided to put together this step-by-step instructions here with pictures as I’m sure I’ll have to do this again at some point and some people probably ran into the same issue.

Step 1 – Click the Windows icon on the taskbar and select “Devices and Printers.” Click on the “Add a printer” button, then click “Add a local printer.”

Step 2 – Select “Create a new port” then select “Standard TCP/IP Port.”

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