Windows local network connection

Hi,
I have a new macbook air, and I want to connect to to a share printer.
I can't find a way to find the local network already set-up (all windows PC).
Does somebody knows how to connect to the local network ? (i am connected to the wifi already)
Thanks !!!

It can take a while before a Windows computer can be seen by OS X. If you open Finder and look in the Sidebar, under the heading of Shared you should see a Windows computer that is set to the same IP subnet as the Mac and the wifi router. If you don't see it then open Network Utility and select the ping tab. Enter the IPv4 address being used by the Windows PC and press Ping. If there is a working path then you should get a reply to each ping packet sent.
If you do get replies to the ping test then open Printers & Scanners and click the plus button and then select the Windows icon, you will see a 3 column window. The first column is for the workgroup name, which is often workgroup or mshome depending on the version of Windows being used. By default the Mac will be set to a name of workgroup. If you do see workgroup then select it and you should then see the name of the Windows computer in the second column. If you don't see anything here then you may need to wait a bit longer.
Note that if you have Windows 7 or 8, they have a Windows to Windows facility called Homegroup and if this is enabled then this can stop the Mac from seeing the PC. You can disable Homegroup via Control Panel > Network & Sharing Centre.
Once you do see the Windows computer name, when you select it you will be prompted to authenticate. Here you need to enter your Windows user name and password. Once entered you will then see the printer share.

Similar Messages

  • Conflict with WRT160N and Windows Wireless Network Connection

    I have a WRT160N router connected to a Verizon FIOS cable modem with five computers (all Windows based) wirelessly connected to the N router.  Four of the computers auto detect the N router connection when the computer starts up using Windows Wireless Network Connection and operate well.  One of the computers, which is the only one running Easylink for router configuration, will not connect through the Wireless Network Connection.  I have to use Easylink to manually connect.  The WNC gives a msg that Windows cannot configure this wireless connection and to configure the wireless connection using Wireless Zero Configuration service.  When I configure WZC correctly the WNC sees all available networks and allows me to select the Advanced Wireless checkbox to allow Windows to connect to the wireless network.  However, when I reboot the computer none of the configuration parameters are saved and I am back to manually connecting using Easylink and going through the entire process again.   Any suggestions?    Thx  

    Uninstall the EasyLink and connect manually. I think EasyLink 3.0 or later is coming soon ..
    For information on upgrading the firmware on the linksys routers :
    http://linksysfirmwares.googlepages.com/upgradingfirmware
    For information on wireless security :
    http://linksysfirmwares.googlepages.com/wirelesssecurity
    C | EH
    linksyshelp.blogspot.com

  • VPN in a local network connected to another free network (wrt54gl)

    Hi,
    The schem is the next: I want to connect my laptop to my house local network throught VPN, in my house I have another router that will be connected in a free network throught an antenna.
    I would be interested in mount a VPN and see the free network and navigate throught it, I have a linksys wrt54gl with no usage now. ¿How can I do this? ¿How?
    PD. Nowdays i don't have the anntena connected to the free network, but I projected it for connecting in few weeks.
    Diagram:
    Thanks!

    This forum site is totally dedicated for Linksys devices not using 3rd party firmware Like Tomato and DDWRT. So it would be better if you post your query in on this other site. http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?forums/tomato-firmware.33/
    Hopefully, somebody can help you with your network setup.

  • I have 2 lan connections, 1 connect to local network server and other to internet, how do i configure firefox to open website on my local network connection and internet also

    ''locking as a duplicate - https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/812283''
    I have 2 local area connections in my computer, one connects to local office network server and another to the internet. when i use firefox i want to configure it to use it to connect to my local office network server website which has address as http://199.123.9.1 and also internet web address simultaneously,

    I found the solution, myself, you need to go to network settings and then select manual proxy setting and provide the ip address of the internet server . that's all
    "it is not OS setting up problem, around DNS and routing Problems." as stated by you,
    anyway thanks.

  • Downloading ios5, after download window says network connection timed out. whats happening here ?

    Trying to download ios5, at the end of the download a window will tell me that my network connection has timed out. can anyone help me please ?

    Your antivirus / firewall software is interfering with the update process. Disable it.

  • Install Windows without network connection

    Trying to install Windows 7 Pro on a 2013 MacBook Pro (which I lovingly refer to as a very expensive paper weight).
    The tools I have at my disposal:
    - Empty usb flash drive
    - The latest boot camp software downloaded as a .zip from App Store
    - External cd/dvd drive
    - Windows 7 Pro installation cd
    - .iso image made of installation cd (after I realized its too brain dead to use physical media)
    - NO NETWORK CONNECTION. (and this is the show stopper)
    Cannot under any circumstances use wireless at the office and wouldn't you know it the machine doesn't come with a wired network adapter. Or a cd/dvd drive. Or a way to connect to a standard workstation monitor. All of those are extra. But I digress.
    I've taken the machine home and used my home wireless to download the latest boot camp files (which now reside in the downloads folder as a .zip file). But I'll be damned if I am going to do this work at home in the evenings in my spare time.
    So...back in the office with no internet. If I try to create a bootable usb it insists on re-downloading the drivers even though I already have them downloaded. If I manually copy the files over to the usb it balks because the usb drive is already bootable. If I skip the usb drive the windows install balks because it doesn't like the partition created by boot camp. Seriously???
    There must be a way to do this. I have all the parts JUST NOT THE INTERNET CONNECTION. As you may have guessed I am a *tiny* bit frustrated at this point.

    It has always been possible to activate Windows via telephone (you may have heard of such a device). Do you have anything useful to contribute to the discussion?
    Back on topic: It would seem you need an internet connected Mac to create the USB boot drive. Once this is done however it should be possible to use this already created USB boot disk to do an offline install. Haven't tested it yet. Still this requires at least one machine connected to the internet in order to make this work.

  • 2 systems using wireless router until I ran Windows local network setup

    We have two computers accessing the internet via our wireless router. One is connected via a cable (a desktop PC), the other via a wireless connection. They both ran fine until I ran the setup for a local network--trying to connect the two to share printers, etc. Now only the laptop can access the internet. The desktop cannot. How do I fix this? We have an AMD Athlon 2800+ desktop running XP and an HP AMD Turion laptop running Vista. The wireless router is the model WRT54GX2 ver 2.

    Check the Ethernet connection from Desktop to router. Also check Ip on desktop
    If it is 192.168.1.X …..Try getting reply from gateway address. If so then try going online.
    If you are not getting valid Ip address on Local area connection, then try changing port on router, do power cycle or lower down the Ethernet card speed to 10half Mbps.

  • MicroSoft Store - Windows Credentials / Network Connection

    Whenever I click on a Microsoft Tile or MetroApp, the screen gives me a logo and continues to recycle and recycle.  I tried to set a windows credential with my microsoft account both in gmail.com and outlook.com and it terlls me that it cannot connect
    to the network, despite the fact that I have network connectivity.  Has anyone run into this problem and do you have a sloution.

    Hi，
    I suggest you check solutions listed in this blog, check the log and file permissions
    What to do if your Windows 8 Modern App fails to start
    http://blogs.technet.com/b/askperf/archive/2013/10/11/what-to-do-if-your-windows-8-modern-app-fails-to-start.aspx
    Run wsreset.exe to clear the WinStore cache
    If you're using Windows 8, see the following link, it might be related with proxy server, but this has been resolved in Windows 8.1
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2778122
    Yolanda Zhu
    TechNet Community Support

  • Windows 8 Network Connection Enable/Disable

    In Windows Network Adapter Settings, a shortcut can be created to Desktop by rightclick on the icon and then dragged to Taskbar or a Toolbar that you have created - useful item in Windows 8.
    I enable/disable the adapter based on my need to be internet connected.
    In Mac Pro 3.1, since the first Windows 8 versions (DP,CP,RP) were made avialable, this shortcut does not work as it has in all earlier Windows versions. I've complained about it in corresponding Windows forums but never gotten an answer.
    Included pictures are proof:
    1) When Network is active as seen by clear icon to the left of taskbar's Speaker icon, rightclick of my flipflop network shortcut icon does not allow Status. I can only Open File Location and get Adapter status there.
    2) When Network is inactive as seen by red xed icon to the left of taskbar's Speaker icon, rightclick of my flipflop network shortcut icon does not allow Enable. I can only Open File Location and enable it from there.
    Wondering If other Mac Pro users have encountered this; if it is somehow a Bootcamp driver, or a Windows 8 lessened  Admin account capability thing.

    Hi,
    I suggest to connect Server Forum for further help:
    http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winservergen/threads
    The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and
    other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us.  Thank you for your understanding.
    Leo Huang
    TechNet Community Support

  • Local Network Connection Problem with SQL Server 2008 R2

    Hi,
    I have CRM application which uses SQL server 2008. Weird thing is that I have no problems connecting from client machines to the server when using a particular router (via LAN) and when I upgrade the firmware of the same router (A common open source firmware
    which is used by many also works perfect apart from mentioned problem) and restart the server, the connection cannot be established. I get Error 40. 
    When i downgrade the firmware and restart the server, the connection works again.
    Please note that I am absolutely not touching any configuration of the server. Also the CRM software allows remote connections from public IPs which this feature works fine with both downgraded and upgraded firmwares. 
    As for my understanding, the routers do not block ports in LAN connections. So how can I diagnose the reason for this connection problem?

    Hi Leony83,
    Please also help to check Windows Event Log information regarding this issue, so that we can do further investigation. In additin, here is the general steps to troubleshoot SQL Server Error 40 issue. Please see:
    SQL SERVER – Fix : Error : 40 – could not open a connection to SQL server – Fix Connection Problems of SQL Server:
    http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/08/24/sql-server-fix-error-40-could-not-open-a-connection-to-sql-server-fix-connection-problems-of-sql-server/
    Hope this helps.
    Regards,
    Elvis Long
    TechNet Community Support

  • Problems recognizing a local network connection

    Perhaps someone can let me know whether this is a sw/hw problem or operator error...
    My Power Book was working fine for the first several weeks, including Internet access through a cable modem attached to a small inhouse network. Without warning several weeks ago, though, it stopped recognizing the internet connection (the cable plugged into the computer). I plugged the computer into all the other cable connectors on the home network (that the family's other computers are normally connected to without problems.), with the same results.
    Is this a problem with my computer or does it look like some service was inadvertantly disabled? HELP!!!

    Make sure cable from cable modem is plugged into WAN-IN slot, Check lighting signal from modem if connection/link lights is off ISP problem. If lights on router problem. Call ISP.

  • Monitor local network connection

    Is there an application that would allow me to monitor the performance of a network? Lets say I have an office with 50 computers, and we've been experiencing problems with speed or connection, I'd like to know (or see) if there's a computer, among the 50, that is causing this, or if the problem shows up at the router (or anything else).
    I've heard of NetMonitor and NetMonitor Sidekick, but it would seem (of what I've read in their site) that it only monitors the computer that has the software installed.
    Any recommendation?

    It depends on how your network is setup, most networks use switches these days so you would only ever see traffic on on any port that is destined to go to the computer on that port. That would only be useful if the machine causing the problem was flooding all the ports with traffic.
    If you have a managed switch or a better still a managed switch backbone you should be able to use the software on the switch to find out which port if any is causing the traffic, or use software on a client machine designed to poll the switch and present the information in an easy to use form.
    My networking skills are rusty, you may be better asking on a networking forum for the type of switches you use.
    regards

  • No service. Cannot connect to local networks abroad

    iPhone 6 I've used abroad before ok. Connected to a local network when I got off plane and received ee text about local usage and data packages. Bought a data package then just seeing 'no service' message. Checked roaming and EU settings and all fine. When I put carrier setting off automatic u can see local networks, connect to them but get no service displayed. Plenty of signal and business account which has worked fine before. Rebooted plenty of times. Can anyone help? Thanks

    Hi .
    Thanks for joining the community.
    I have had this before myself and found turning the 4G off got me service.
    Can you try this?
    Also what country are you in?
    Thanks.

  • DNS not resolving on one Mac but the other works fine in same local network

    Snow Leopard is doing something strange to the DNS or the permission to ping.
    I have 2 Macs on the same local network, connect through the same ISP (verizon FIOS). One has no problem resolving any domain, but the other is constantly not resolving some domains.
    The problem progresses like this:
    * All of a sudden, DNS is not resolving from Ethernet (when it did perfectly well a minute ago).
    * Then I switched to wireless (using the same LAN), and it resolved fine.
    * Then it failed completely a few minutes later.
    * Then I reboot my Mac, and it seemed to clear that, and worked for a day.
    * Then it failed again in both Ethernet and Wireless; rebooting does not fix it.
    * I cleared all the caches using Onyx, did "dscacheutil -flushcache", zapped the PRAM, reinstalled 10.6.2 combo update, repaired the permission, nothing works.
    * Since the unresolved domain is my own domain, I changed the nameserver, and waited for it to propagate to see if that may be the problem, since it appeared that it is not resolving the A Record, and I waited 72 hours, and it is not resolved or propagating to the local DNS, but it worked perfectly well on my other Mac within the same network.
    * Then I added other DNS, such as google DNS 8.8.8.8 or openDNS servers to it, but it didn't fix anything.
    * Then I "ping" either the unresolved domain or my own Mac .local, and it gave me the error "permission denied". (Whereas I have no problem pinging my own Mac or the unresolved domain in my other Mac that works!).
    * Then I "sudo ping" the unresolved domain or my own Mac, and it pinged perfectly well.
    * Then I tried "ping6" my own Mac or the unresolved domain on the broken Mac, and it worked fine!
    * Also, I used http://network-tools.com to ping it, and noticed that during the trace, somewhere along the route through te7-2.dsr02.dllstx3.theplanet.com and po2.car04.dllstx5.theplanet.com, it timed out along the route, so I don't know if the timeout could have been causing the reject, but I doubted, because "sudo ping" locally will get through but "ping" does not.
    So I think I traced the Snow Leopard DNS problem as follows:
    * Why does "ping6" works, but "ping" permission is denied unless the user is root?
    * I tried to "chmod 4755 ping" but it won't let me.
    * Is it because DNS is resolving using IPv6 but not IPv4?
    * Or is Snow Leopard somehow screwed up the permission to access ping or similar DNS service?
    * Why DNS has no problem in one Mac but caused problem on the other Mac, even though they are in the same local network?
    * The only difference between the Macs maybe because I have Parallels installed in the Mac that failed to resolve DNS (with the extra Parallels Shared Ethernet), which may be interfering with it, but I tried to turn Parallels Shared Ethernet off, and it did not fix the problem.
    Can anyone help or have any idea that I can fix this nagging bug with DNS? The DNS had worked before, but it simply quit working all of a sudden, and nothing can resurrect it.
    Thanks.

    Shut down Parallels and restart w/o letting any of Parallels TCP/IP stack resurrect itself. So many network issues with VM solutions. See if the problem persists. Create a new account and ping from there. Are your search domains manually entered on the 10.6 box?

  • Unable to connect to Windows computers on local network

    We have several Windows XP computers on our local network. Some have shared folders, that we can upload/download files to/from. 
    Connecting to these Windows computers was no problem under Snow Leopard, but under Lion I cannot connect to any of them.
    The shared computers show up in the Finder. I can see them in the sidebar, under the "SHARED" items. But I cannot connect to them.
    If I select a computer to connect to, the Finder pops up the following error:
    There was a problem connecting to the server "name".
    The server may not exist or it is unavailable at this time. Check the server name or IP address, check your network connection, and then try again.
    Also, I get the following error message in the system.log
    Finder: SharePointBrowser::handleOpenCallBack returned 57

    Unfortunately it does not work for me.
    I can see the server in the Finder under the "Shared" list.
    If I click on the server, the Finder gives me the error message I mentioned above. If I click "Connect to server" button nothing happens, but I get the same error message in the system.log. If I select the "Connect to Server" option from the "Go" menu I get the same errors. So I still cannot connect.

Maybe you are looking for