PC Printer sharing on a mac
I just received my first mac... a powerbook G4 15" with Tiger... and i was tryin to connect to my printer which is hooked up to a pc in my house via usb, tghe printer is shared over my network and i kno it works cuz i have 2 other pcs in my house connected to this printer. when i go in to the printer set up utility i click on more printers the click the drop down menu and goto windows sharing. then i see the computer that i want to connect to on the network. click on it type in the administrator user and pass and theres nuthing there. my mind has been boggled by this i do not understand why i cant see the printer. i took and older printer hooked it up to one of my other pcs and shared it and the powerbook sees it just fine... but it cant see the printer i want to use.
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Originally posted by spindler
I can't even understand what you have typed. I can't even tell what you have or want connected to what. This is a pretty simple problem to solve if I knew what you were asking.
I'll try to translate, but I'm not sure I got it right:
He has a USB printer attached to one of his 3 PCs. The 3 PCs can use the printer fine.
He has a new PowerBook on his network and wants to print to the above-referenced printer.
He opened Printer Setup Utility on the Mac and is somehow stuck after choosing some stuff from the menus.
I have a USB printer attached to a PC running Windows XP.
This printer is shared over my network with 2 other PC's running windows XP.
I am Having trouble Connecting my powerbook to this shared printer. The powerbook is Running OS X Tiger.
i goto the printer setup utility, click more printers, From the top drop down menu i click Windows printing, From the second drop down menu i have my workgroup selected.
i see the computer that the printer is attached to, Labeled Family1, i click on Family1 and it takes me to another screen which should list the avalible printers but nothing is there.