Hello,
Just bought my wife a new MacBook, OS Snow Leopard 10.6.5. I've spent a good part of my free time the last two weeks trying to get it to print to my home network printer. The printer is attached to my custom assembled HTPC running Win 7 Ultimate, the printer is a Canon IP 100 attached directly to the HTPC and the wireless router is a Netgear Wireless-N 150.
I also have an old IBM T-41, late model Toshiba, Asus 10" and my trusty Lenovo T410 work laptop, all of which I can conect to my home network in a matter of seconds and do anything I want. The Mac is a different story.
This is my first Mac so it took some time and a lot of internet browsing to get where I am, last evening was the first time I was able to access/mount a shared Win 7 folder on the HTPC from the Mac. To do this I had to use the IP address instead of computer name so I'll have to redo it every time the IP address changes, I don't really want a static IP address. I would rather it work properly than use a work around.
I don't need to share files so that part is a null point, I do need the thing to print. I've got as far as having the "workgroup" show up in the first 'add printer' box, then the HTPC show up in the second box, and the printer 'Canon' show up in the third box. I select Canon IP 100 from the drop down list, but doesn't print . The printer never appears on the printer list, neither USB or Network, may be significant, but I don't know Macs.
I've installed the Canon IP 100 Mac drivers on the Mac, the printer is shared, works flawlessly with other PCs, but when I try to print from the Mac, it thinks about it, then goes to an "Authenication needed" on the print queue status line, I click an icon above and a UN/PW box pops up, I put in the same info I use for file sharing, it thinks about it, and no go, back to "Authenication needed" or something like that. Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks
David and Jovy
Just bought my wife a new MacBook, OS Snow Leopard 10.6.5. I've spent a good part of my free time the last two weeks trying to get it to print to my home network printer. The printer is attached to my custom assembled HTPC running Win 7 Ultimate, the printer is a Canon IP 100 attached directly to the HTPC and the wireless router is a Netgear Wireless-N 150.
I also have an old IBM T-41, late model Toshiba, Asus 10" and my trusty Lenovo T410 work laptop, all of which I can conect to my home network in a matter of seconds and do anything I want. The Mac is a different story.
This is my first Mac so it took some time and a lot of internet browsing to get where I am, last evening was the first time I was able to access/mount a shared Win 7 folder on the HTPC from the Mac. To do this I had to use the IP address instead of computer name so I'll have to redo it every time the IP address changes, I don't really want a static IP address. I would rather it work properly than use a work around.
I don't need to share files so that part is a null point, I do need the thing to print. I've got as far as having the "workgroup" show up in the first 'add printer' box, then the HTPC show up in the second box, and the printer 'Canon' show up in the third box. I select Canon IP 100 from the drop down list, but doesn't print . The printer never appears on the printer list, neither USB or Network, may be significant, but I don't know Macs.
I've installed the Canon IP 100 Mac drivers on the Mac, the printer is shared, works flawlessly with other PCs, but when I try to print from the Mac, it thinks about it, then goes to an "Authenication needed" on the print queue status line, I click an icon above and a UN/PW box pops up, I put in the same info I use for file sharing, it thinks about it, and no go, back to "Authenication needed" or something like that. Any advice is appreciated.
Thanks
David and Jovy