I have a cannon mp160 printer attached to a windows 7 machine that i am sharing with other windows 7 machines. I can not figure out how to share the printer with my macbook pro running 10.6.3. Can someone give a mac rookie some instruction on how to do this.
Sharing a windows 7 printer to mac
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I have successfully shared the printer connected to my Windows Vista machine, with my MBP. Below is the method I used; it may or may not work with Windows 7.
On the Windows machine that is connected to the printer:
1. hold the start button on the keyboard and hit 'r'.
2. type 'cmd' and hit enter.
3. type 'ipconfig' and hit enter.
4. write down the ip address of the Windows machine.
5. open control panel.
6. open the printers option and write down the name of the shared printer you want to use on your Mac.
7. go back to the control panel and open 'programs and features.
8. on the left sidebar click 'turn windows features on or off'.
9. expand the print services folder and enable all 3 options.
10. hit ok and then wait for the dialog to go away (might take a few minutes).
On your Mac:
1) Open System preferences
2) Print & fax
3) add a printer and go to IP
4) Protocol choose Line Printer Daemon - LPD
5) In Address just the ip where the printer is e.g 192.168.1.1 nothing more
6) In Queue the printer share name (make sure that is correct or will not work)
7) In Name choose whatever you want
8) Put the same name that you put in Queue
9) Choose the correct print driver for your printer
10) You are done. Try printing.
This may or may not work for you, and it's been so long since I did it, I would be useless for troubleshooting tips. Good luck.
On the Windows machine that is connected to the printer:
1. hold the start button on the keyboard and hit 'r'.
2. type 'cmd' and hit enter.
3. type 'ipconfig' and hit enter.
4. write down the ip address of the Windows machine.
5. open control panel.
6. open the printers option and write down the name of the shared printer you want to use on your Mac.
7. go back to the control panel and open 'programs and features.
8. on the left sidebar click 'turn windows features on or off'.
9. expand the print services folder and enable all 3 options.
10. hit ok and then wait for the dialog to go away (might take a few minutes).
On your Mac:
1) Open System preferences
2) Print & fax
3) add a printer and go to IP
4) Protocol choose Line Printer Daemon - LPD
5) In Address just the ip where the printer is e.g 192.168.1.1 nothing more
6) In Queue the printer share name (make sure that is correct or will not work)
7) In Name choose whatever you want
8) Put the same name that you put in Queue
9) Choose the correct print driver for your printer
10) You are done. Try printing.
This may or may not work for you, and it's been so long since I did it, I would be useless for troubleshooting tips. Good luck.
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I just installed Bonjour on the wife's notebook running Vista: printed a test page to the printer attached to my iMac - took less that two minutes from download to taking it off my to do list.
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Thanks wavinwayne!!
It worked. I've tried about 20 different sites suggestions and your instruction was the only one worked.
macbook 10.6 + windows 7 w/samsung printer clp-310.
It worked. I've tried about 20 different sites suggestions and your instruction was the only one worked.
macbook 10.6 + windows 7 w/samsung printer clp-310.
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