PC Printer sharing on a mac

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
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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  • Reply 1 of 5
    does anyone know anything about this?
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  • Reply 2 of 5
    spindlerspindler Posts: 713member
    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.
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  • Reply 3 of 5
    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    Quote:

    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.



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  • Reply 4 of 5
    Ok....goin to attemp to clarify



    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.
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  • Reply 5 of 5
    have i not clarified enough?
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