Shared Printers gone?
I have an HP 7360 attached to a Mac running 10.3.9, set to share that printer. On another computer in the house running Tiger, I could see the printer in Shared Printers. So I upgraded the Tiger computer to Leopard, I don't see the shared printer on the Panther computer. Anyone have a similar problem?
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If a shared printer doesn?t appear in the printer list, check with the owner. Make sure the printer and the computer are turned on, the computer is running Mac OS X 10.4 or later, and printer sharing is enabled.
I am sure that the decision to not include sharing to Panther Macs was a deliberate one by Apple - whilst they quite happily enable WIndows printing. Aaargh!
Go into Printers and Fax preferences pane on the Leopard Machines. Add printer. Select IP and then "Line Printer Daemon - LPD". Find and enter the address of the Panther computer under "Address" (go to network pref.s on the panther machine and find it). Enter the name of the printer under "Queue" (find this from the printer pref.s pane on the Panther machine). Enter whatever you want to call the new printer under "Name" and "Location" and use the "generic postscript printer" option as the "Print Using".
This should work and then be a selectable printer from now on.
It was much easier though to just go to "sharing" as you could before under Tiger.....
And please don't say upgrade my wifes OS to Tiger or Leopard as the old iMac has a 800MHz G3, so Tiger will struggle and Leopard is not an option.