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Hello everyone,
I just got a MacBook Pro and I am having some trouble with my Kodak 5500 Easy-Share printer. I am trying to print from the MacBook (OSX 10.5) to my windows desktop (XP Pro-64bit). Through many failed attempts trying various approaches I read on other forums, I am finally posting this. Things I've tried include going through the advanced tab on the printer setup and selecting the windows printer option and typing the url like smb://userName:ip/printerName. I've tried the IP printing by trying to open ports for printing using various protocols and using myPublicIPort and things. The windows printing option lets me see my kodak printer on my windows machine, but it still dosen't work. Most of the time the mac printer dialog says the printer is not responding or offline (something to that effect) sometimes it says it is busy and will retry in ## seconds. Other times my windows machine brings up it's printer dialog automatically, and then displays an error. I can plug the printer directly into the MacBook and it works fine. I have fought with this silly thing for many hours, and I have no idea how to fix this.
On a funny note, I have set up file sharing and remote desktop, so I can log-in to my windows machine and get a file from the shared folder that i put into it, bring it up, and print it just fine. This seems like way to much work though, I can't understand why it is so hard to set this up.
If anyone has this problem, please let me know how you fixed it. I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank You,
dtopdawgie
(Mark)
I just got a MacBook Pro and I am having some trouble with my Kodak 5500 Easy-Share printer. I am trying to print from the MacBook (OSX 10.5) to my windows desktop (XP Pro-64bit). Through many failed attempts trying various approaches I read on other forums, I am finally posting this. Things I've tried include going through the advanced tab on the printer setup and selecting the windows printer option and typing the url like smb://userName:ip/printerName. I've tried the IP printing by trying to open ports for printing using various protocols and using myPublicIPort and things. The windows printing option lets me see my kodak printer on my windows machine, but it still dosen't work. Most of the time the mac printer dialog says the printer is not responding or offline (something to that effect) sometimes it says it is busy and will retry in ## seconds. Other times my windows machine brings up it's printer dialog automatically, and then displays an error. I can plug the printer directly into the MacBook and it works fine. I have fought with this silly thing for many hours, and I have no idea how to fix this.
On a funny note, I have set up file sharing and remote desktop, so I can log-in to my windows machine and get a file from the shared folder that i put into it, bring it up, and print it just fine. This seems like way to much work though, I can't understand why it is so hard to set this up.
If anyone has this problem, please let me know how you fixed it. I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank You,
dtopdawgie
(Mark)