Connect to a shared printer

My dilemma:
I have a desktop computer with Windows XP installed. Other household laptops use Windows vista and want to be able to print through my printer which is directly connected to my desktop using XP. How can I set my Vista laptops up to access the printer?

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Unable to connect to USB shared printer

I hope someone will be able to help with this. I recently had to change my home network setup, and now I can't wirelessly connect to the USB printer shared through my PowerMac G4. Previously, I had AT&T DSL coming in through a Westell modem, with the line out going to the WAN port of the Airport Extreme base station. I then connected the LAN port on the base station to the uplink port on a Linksys switch, to which were connected the iMac G5 and the PowerMac G4. I had a Samsung laser printer connected to the USB port on the base station and an old Epson Stylus Color 740i connected to the G4 with USB printer sharing turned on in System Prefs. Everything worked fine - I could print to either printer from any computer, including wirelessly through my MacBook.
Unfortunately, I have been experiencing slow speeds with my DSL, so one of the steps an AT&T tech took was to replace my Westell modem with a new AT&T 2Wire, which also serves as a router (or switch, I'm not sure which one). Now I don't have the Linksys switch, as it's not needed. The iMac G5 and the G4 are connected directly to the modem through ethernet, and another ethernet port is connected to the WAN port on the Airport base station. There is no connection to the LAN port on the base station. The two printers are connected in the manner I described above. I can print to either printer from the iMac and the G4, but from my MacBook I can only connect to the Samsung that is plugged into the base station. Although printer sharing is still turned on in the G4, I don't see the Epson printer listed anywhere when I try to add a printer on the MacBook. Also, I used to be able to browse the local network to connect to my other computers from the MacBook, but now they don't show up in the browse window. I can connect to them if I put in the computer's IP address, which is now in a different format (192.xxx.x.xx) rather than 10.0.x.x like it used to be. I only mention these last two points because they might be related to why I can't connect to the printer.
Sorry this is so long and complicated, but if anyone has more networking experience than I do, please help. Thanks!

linbobmiller wrote:
Just bought an HP c310a printer with wireless capability. When I install it on the wireless network it say I need to input a MAC address. I don't think that is necessary, but I can't bypass it. Any suggestions?
Your printer is requesting a mac address?
Is that before or after the printer showed you the available ssid's while running the wireless setup.
Did you run the wireless network test on the printer? and if so did it report any errors?
Which wireless setup are you running?
This may help
http://h20563.www2.hp.com/p/_wireless/printer-setup-help.html#preparing

Connecting to a shared printer on a local network

I want to connect my iBook G4 to my Dell Windows computer to utilize a shared printer on the Dell. We currently use a local area network. What do I have to do to my iBook to use this printer. Should the printers we are trying to connect to appear on my computer? I want to connect over our wireless network to a computer connected to our Dell Windows computer.
Thanks for your help.

I was having difficulty logging in to the server via. Finder, this is what worked for me.
Netgear Router - WNDR 4000
Mac OSX 10.5.8
After selecting "Connect to Server" in Finder I typed in "smb://readyshare" and I pushed the connect button. I was prompted with a username and password and I typed in the username and password that I use to log in to the Netgear router.
I recently upgraded from a WNDR3700 and I did not have to do the above. The readyshare server showed up in Finder a few minutes after I connected the USB drive.
This worked for me, hope it works for you.

Mac Book doesn't print when connected to a shared printer.

I am hosting a shared printer in our office and no other computer but mine can print from it. Mine is the only one connected to it via USB. All of the computers are Mac laptops. I've enabled printer sharing and checked to see how the others were configured but can't figure out what's wrong.
When printing from the other computers, I get a message in the progress bar saying "(On Hold) Authentication Required." I've tried pressing Resume and re-entering the username/password, but it goes back to that message...
The printer is a Brother 2140.

https://discussions.apple.com/message/19078051

Canon i9900 - no new drivers work to connect to Vista shared printer

I've spent 3 frustrating days trying to print to the Canon i9900 which is connected to my Vista PC and shared. On the Mac print queue it shows it is printing but on the Vista printer window, the status is SPOOLING and goes no further. Everything is correctly set on both sides, permissions, etc. I have tried every new updated driver from MAC and from Canon. The only print driver that does work is the Canon BJC-8500 but the document is 70% its regular size and the color is awful. I even installed the Snow Leopard update.
I guess that leaves me to continue printing thru Parallels/Vista for now until there's a better solution. I doubt it. Has anyone had any success sharing on a Windows network with this printer? Any help or ideas is greatly appreciated.

You have done some good research. One more thing - the driver from Canon was written to support direct USB printing only. You need a CUPS driver to use the various protocols available in the CUPS printing system in OS X. Look for CUPS drivers for your model here:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/macosx
http://www.printfab.net/
Try Gutenprint first, but your model might not be in there.

I'm trying to connect to a shared printer on a PC.

I have joined the Windows workgroup on the PC. The PC can see the MAC but the MAC can't see the PC. I have the MAC firewall turned off. I also turned off Windows Firewall but that did help. Any ideas?

Don't use the CD software its not necessary.
Infact put it in the trash.
Your router will have an IP address in the range 192.168.1.1
Connect your router to your Mac via Ethernet cable (They usually supply one with the router and don't worry which end goes where the Mac LAN socket is bi-directional)
Also connect your router to your telephone line.
Now open your Web browser Safari . Type in the IP address above and a Javascript control panel will launch
Enter the default password and username (They are on a label on the router )
Your now have the ability to set up your router.
Your will need the password and user name supplied to you by your ISP at a minimum.
Enter these and most modern routers automatically configure the basic networking setting.
You now need to go to the security setting and set this as WPA2 Personal (NOT Enterprise) or WPA2 with AES and TKIP which ever it refers to and create a pass-phase. WRITE it down
You should be online.
Now remove the cable and connect to the Wifi and enter that passphase.

Can't connect to shared printer on Windows 7 Pro x64

I have a print server on Windows 2008 Standard and I have drivers installed for both x86 and x64 archs. The ricoh printer seems to work fine on windows 7 pro x64 but the hp printer will not work correctly. It seems to download/install the drivers but when actually connecting to the printer it errors out.
It says cannot connect to printer.
I can add the printer manually if I use tcp/ip printing instead of connecting to the shared printer. I can't figure out why its not working. Has anyone else seen an error like this? I'm not really sure what is causing this issue.
Thanks!

Hi,
Thanks for the post.
Please also let us know the exact model of this HP printer.
If possible, please reproduce this issue on the Windows7 client and collect the relevant information for further research.
Step 1: Download Process Monitor
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1. Please download the Process Monitor at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
2. Extract the zip file to Desktop.
Step 2: Clean Boot
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Let's disable all startup items and third party services when booting. This method will help us determine if this issue is caused by a loading program or service. Please perform the following steps:
1. Click "Start", go to "Run", and type "msconfig" (without the quotation marks) in the open box to start the System Configuration Utility.
2. Click the "Services" tab, check the "Hide All Microsoft Services" box and click "Disable All" (if it is not gray).
3. Click the "Startup" tab, click "Disable All" and click "OK".
4. Click "OK" to restart your computer to Selective Startup environment.
5. When the "System Configuration Utility" window appears, please check the "Don't show this message or launch the System Configuration Utility when Windows starts" box and click OK.
6. Check whether or not the issue still appears in this environment.
Note: Temporarily disabling the Startup Group only prevents the startup programs from loading at startup. This shouldn't affect the system or other programs. We may still manually run these programs later.
Step 3: Collect the Information
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1. Open Procmon.exe (Process Monitor).
2. Reproduce this issue.
3. After that, please click Capture in the tool bar (or directly press Ctrl+E) in Process Monitor.
4. Click Save, in the prompt window, selects “All Events”.
5. Click Browser Button (The button is right to “Path”), in the prompt window, click Desktop, type “test” (without the quotation marks) in the File Name box and press Enter.
6. Find the file, right-click on this file, click "Send To", and click "Compressed (zipped) Folder".
For your convenience, I have created a workspace for you. You can upload the information files to the following link. (Please choose "Send Files to Microsoft")
Workspace URL: (https://sftasia.one.microsoft.com/choosetransfer.aspx?key=7f161e43-e9d9-4654-9077-88c9f57137c6)
Password: YK]yhkqqV0L
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HP Deskjet 712c Win 7 Home problem connecting to shared printer on Win XP Pro PC

Hi,
I am having a problem connecting to a shared printer on my home wireless network. The printer is HP Deskjet 712C. When I had Win XP on all my PCs, I could successfully share the printer from one PC and print to it from any PC. Worked just fine.
However, now I have 2 PCs with Win 7 Home and 1 PC with Win XP Pro. The printer is physically connected to the Win XP box. I have confirmed, on that box, it is being shared. When I try to add the printer on a Win 7 box, I select network printer and get to the point where it needs the driver. It prompts for an INF file. I have no clue where to go from there. I have done the Windows Update thing for Win 7 to update the driver list in the OS. I did see on the Win XP box that there's a place where I can load various drivers to the network for different OSs. I'm guessing that's so the appropriate drivers for those OSs will be available when adding the shared printer in those OSs. Of course, Win Vista and Win 7 are not available there. Is there any way I can share the printer from my Win XP box to my Win 7 boxes?
Also, I've tried physically connecting the printer to one of my Win 7 boxes to share it from there, but I have probems there just getting Win 7 to see the printer correctly. I'm using a Parallel - USB converter cable. When I plug it in, Win 7 sees the printer as a IEEE-1394 device instead of a printer. Even when I install the HP Deskjet 712C drivers in the OS driver list, and select the USB001 port, it tells me the printer is not plugged in, but I know it is.
I would love to hear some ideas! Please help!
Thanks

HI, I have the same issue and recently (1/15/11) posted the problem.
Did you ever figure out what was arong and get it working?

Connecting Snow Leopard to Printer shared on XP Pro

I am attempting to connect my Snow Leopard machine to my printer that is shared on my XP Pro machine. Here are the steps I have taken.
1. Printer shared on XP with printer name that is 12 characters or less
2. Verified the XP Firewall is set to allow file and print sharing
3. Verified shared printing works from another machine (I can print from a Vista machine to this printer)
4. Both XP and Snow Leopard have the same Workgroup name
5. Both XP and Snow Leopard are on the same subnet
6. On Snow Leopard I have gone to Printers and chosen Windows. In the screen where I would expect to see my workgroup I see nothing, no workgroup, computers or shared printers.
7. On Snow Leopard I have added the Advanced button to the Printers window and chosen Windows from there.
8. For the SMB:// address I have tried the following (all with generic PostScript driver):
smb://user:password@workgroup/server/sharename
smb://user:password@server/sharename
smb://workgroup/server/sharename
smb://server/sharename
When I try to print (with any of the above SMB addresses) the print job gets stuck in the queue and says "waiting for authentication". When I resume the print job I am prompted for a username and password. I enter the username and password for an administrator account on the XP machine and the job still says "waiting for authentication"
9. I can connect to an SMB file share on the same XP machine from the Snow Leopard machine (I just can't connect to the shared printer)
Any ideas on what else I can do to get Snow Leopard to connect to the shared printer on my XP Pro machine?

I finally succeeded in printing to my Win7 shared Brother DCP printer from my MacBook Pro with Snow 10.6.1 doing this:
- in the "Advanced Sharing Setting" of the Win7 machine (in the Network and Sharing Center) I selected "Enable File Sharing for Devices that use 40 or 56 bit encryption" instead of the 128 bit set by default.
- in my MacBook I accessed the Win7 machine using the finder and the string smb://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:139 (not the machine name...wins and workgroup are buggy).
- Added the printer as usual with the string smb://user:[email protected]/printer
Connecting this way I can easily browse the PCs, sync my documents with Super Flexible Synchronizer (the Mac version of Goodsync for Win), use the Win shared printers.
I also experienced that if I turn on my other Mac Machine (OSx86 with Leo 10.5.8) on the LAN, on the finder sidebar of my Snow 10.6.1 one, the workgroup machines populates the list with their "wins" names.
If the 10.5.8 is turned off there's no way to connect the win machines but manually (Finder/Go/Connect to Server).
I thought it might be a "Little Snitch" (firewall for Mac) issue, but I turned it off and it's the same.
It must surely be a close ports related issue (between the two macs, they exchange LAN info through different ports/ways, maybe....)
Hope it may help, even if the 128 encryption mode doesn't affect XP machines (Only Vista and Win7)....
Stefania

Printing from Windows 8 to a shared printer on a Windows 7 machine

WE have a a user that has a laser printer on A windows 7 machine that others in the office can access EXCEPT the one person on a Windows 8 machine. We have tried everything, but cannot get her to print to this printer. Says it cannot be found. What does
Windows 8 need to see a printer on a Win 7 workstation. She does have access to network printers and her own.
Thanks.

We have the same kind of problem but a bit different.
Dell Printer (used for years shared on a network) was moved to our Windows 7 machine plugged in via USB. We only use a plain workgroup with no Domain as we also have Macs on the network.
I have Macs using shared printer, a Windows XP using the shared printer, and even Windows 7 under Parallels on the Macs using the shared printer no problem.
I had the lone Windows 8 laptop using the shared printer but then it just stopped working. So I deleted it and now when I try to add it is want credentials and none work. It will not connect to the shared printer on the Windows 7 machine.
I have Windows 7 (which also has a couple shared drives that do work) set for No Homegroup and No Password for sharing - pretty much open as we are behind a Cisco Firewall to the outside. No firewalls on the pcs.
Not sure where to go from here...

Can't print from XP Machine to an OSX Shared Printer

Hi All,
I already configured my Epson RX 620 in OSX, it's printing perfectly. I turned on the printer Sharing and the Windows Sharing in OS X. Then I found my iMac in my XP explorer, connected to the shared printer, set the drivers in XP and print the test page....
That's where the problem started!
The job is submitted to the OS X Printer QUEUE, but it's not being printed.
It said "smbprn.0000000003 Test Page Finished", but I am getting no output from the printer...
Any idea?
Jose Febus

Sorry....I just needed to change the driver in the XP machine to Apple COlor LaserJet!
My only concern is that I am not able to select the quality in the XP machine....

Printing from your iPad1 to a shared printer

I have a usb printer connected to my desktop computer and my desktop computer is connected to my network via a network cable. My printer is shared on the desktop but some apps cannot see it. Primarily from Pages where i need it most. I have the Print Central app installed on my iPad which prints fine to the printer. So why cant i get Good Reader and Pages to see and print to the printer?
Please help.
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We have the same kind of problem but a bit different.
Dell Printer (used for years shared on a network) was moved to our Windows 7 machine plugged in via USB. We only use a plain workgroup with no Domain as we also have Macs on the network.
I have Macs using shared printer, a Windows XP using the shared printer, and even Windows 7 under Parallels on the Macs using the shared printer no problem.
I had the lone Windows 8 laptop using the shared printer but then it just stopped working. So I deleted it and now when I try to add it is want credentials and none work. It will not connect to the shared printer on the Windows 7 machine.
I have Windows 7 (which also has a couple shared drives that do work) set for No Homegroup and No Password for sharing - pretty much open as we are behind a Cisco Firewall to the outside. No firewalls on the pcs.
Not sure where to go from here...

Shared printer not showing in list

My husband and I both have mac g4's, connected over usb network. We both recently updated to 10.48. The printer is connected to usb hub on with his printer. Everything was fine til we updated operating systems. Now the printer stopped showing in my printer listing. It prints when connected directly to either computer. Did everything manual and books said about printer sharing. Both downloaded latest drivers. It's an HP Photosmart 3200.
Thanks!
Kathy
g4 mirror Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi Kathy,
Generally the updates affect the permissions on files, so that is why the Repair Disk Permissions can resolve printing problems.
Given that you are using TCP/IP to connect to each other, then you would be using the same protocol to view and connect to the shared printer. What you can do next is open the CUPS printer page of your computer to see if the shared printer is visible. Do the following;
1. Open your Internet browser, such as Safari.
2. For the address, type
http://127.0.0.1:631/printers
and hit Enter.
This should show the printers installed on your computer and the printers shared on his Mac (Tamo). If it doesn't show his shared printer, type the following;
http://ipaddress:631/printers/sharename
Note that you need to replace ip_address with the IP address of your husbands Mac (Tamo) and 'shared_printer' with the shared name of the printer. So the address should look something like this;
http://192.168.44.47:631/printers/HP3200
If you are not sure of the shared name you can check this by clicking on Network Preferences > Print & Fax > Sharing.
Doing the above in the browser should make the CUPS page for the shared HP appear. If it does then we are a step closer in working this out.
Let me know how you go...
Regards,
Paul

Install printer driver for a shared printer MP520

Hi,
I need to install the Canon MP520 (http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=116&mo delid=15483) printer to my MBP. The printer is connected to another a mac running OSX and is shared. I installed the OSX driver provided on the Canon page and I can see the shared printer in the network printers but when I am asked to choose the driver I can't see the correct model listed.
On the other hand, if I simply connect the same printer via USB, to my MBP it is recognized directly.
When I'm asked to provide the driver while adding the printer via the network, there is also the option to browse to the driver location. So my question is, where are the can I find the right driver on the OS ?
Thanks in advance ,
Tex

Reading your first post it sounds like the method you used to connect to the shared printer may have been incorrect.
When a Mac is sharing a printer, to add this printer on another Mac, you select the Default browser view. You should see the printer name followed by Shared in this view. When you select it, there should be no requirement to browse for a printer model. The queue should just be created with minimal driver options.
If you want to have all the features of the MP520 available to your Mac, then you need to install the same driver on your Mac as what is being used by the Mac sharing the printer. Check this carefully as Canon offers two drivers for Mac OS X and you can also use the free Gutenprint driver set for the MP520. If you open System Preferences > Print & Fax on the sharing Mac, select the printer in the list and look at the Kind section of the right hand pane, the driver version will be displayed. With a bit of luck the driver that was used to install on this Mac might still be available so that you can install it on your Mac.
Note also that you don't have to add the printer queue to your Mac to print to a shared Mac printer. From the majority of applications, when you select to print, you should find a Shared Printer option in the print dialog > Printer menu. This can be beneficial if you don't have a requirement to add this printer to your list, such as when you are visiting someone with Mac's. This doesn't sound like your situation but wanted to make you and others you read this aware of this fact.
PaHu

Losing Prints on Shared Printer

I posted this on a different discussion and was advised to post here. Here is a link to that post: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3834099#3834099
I have searched and searched these discussions to no avail for a fix to my problem. I have found fixes for my Boy Scout troops Windows machine shared print problem, but not for my iMac, so here I go.
I have an iMav DV 400 with an Airport card and an iMac G5 1.9 with Airport Extreme with an Epson Stylus Photo R200 connected to it by USB. All these go through a D-Link DI524 wireless router.
I can print wonderfully with the G5 through USB and the Windows machine through the wireless, but I can't get the G4 to print. The G4 seems to stream the prints to its print spooler, then it disappears from there to wind up in the bit bucket somewhere. Nothing shows in the log of the G5 and the printer never acts like it wants to print.
My son tries to use the G4 for homework, but not being able to print makes it tough.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance

Hello Todd,
First of all I would have a look at the cups error log (Applications > Utilities > Console > /var/logs/cups/error_log) on the G4. This may give some clues why the job is failing to spool to the G5.
On the G4, can you explain how you are adding the printer. I know that for a number of the Epsons you need to go to More Printers and then select Epson USB before selecting the model. What I don't know is if you still need to do the same for connecting to a shared printer.
Regards,
Paul

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