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I have a Canon MF4100 printer connected to a Windows XP machine and am trying to print to it from my Macbook Pro. Mac sees workgroup, the XP machine and the printer. I then select the appropriate driver from drop down menu. I click to print and it asks for a password. I don't believe I set a password on the windows machine. The document appears to spool to printer then up comes an error. Canon UFRII Printer Driver. An error occurred: -50
Any Ideas?
Cheers,
Brett

You will find this is a limitation of the Canon UFR2 driver for Mac OS X. It cannot be used when you share the printer from Windows.
There is a workaround however. It involves adding a number of files to the PC. Have a read of the article at this link.
http://iharder.sourceforge.net/current/macosx/winmacprinter/
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