sdenike Posted January 6, 2004 Share Posted January 6, 2004 I have a LAN setup and I have a Epson Stylus Printer connected via USB to my windows XP machine, anyways I want to have it shared on my LAN so my Powerbook an Print to it... Anyways do i have to do naything special to share it? I have already enabled sharing on the Epson Printer in XP now what?. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/129474-sharing-a-printer-on-windows-xp-machine/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdenike Posted January 7, 2004 Author Share Posted January 7, 2004 *bump* Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/129474-sharing-a-printer-on-windows-xp-machine/#findComment-1566575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
livesoca Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 (edited) Nope, there's nothing really special that you need to do. 1 - Go to START > SETTINGS > CONTROL PANEL > PRINTER & FAXES. 2 - Right click on the printer icon that you want to share and choose sharing/properties. 3 - Select "Share this printer" and click OK. 4 - That's it. :D Oh one more thing, the pc that the printer is connected to must be on in order to get the stuff printed out. Also make sure that your File and printer sharing option is checked in your LAN Connection Properties. One more thing again. :D I'm not too sure, but I think these two machines should be under the same workgroup name. I could be wrong. Good Luck (Y) This is the way I did mines in XP Pro, I asssume it's the same more or less. LIVESOCA Edited January 7, 2004 by livesoca Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/129474-sharing-a-printer-on-windows-xp-machine/#findComment-1566600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilsbury Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 I assume the machine is running OSX? (this is certainly true for 10.3.x...): Go to "System Preferences" --> Printers --> Add Printer Choose Windows printer... Simple as that. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/129474-sharing-a-printer-on-windows-xp-machine/#findComment-1566605 Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmuBite Posted January 7, 2004 Share Posted January 7, 2004 I follwed this guide and got my iBook printing via SAMBA to my XP printer (a LaserJet 6L). You'll probably need to install Gimp Print for OS X to get your Epson to work. (I'm not sure that it's supported natively under OS X...) Cheers, RW Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/129474-sharing-a-printer-on-windows-xp-machine/#findComment-1566987 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdenike Posted January 8, 2004 Author Share Posted January 8, 2004 I have installed the printer on my laptop becuase I needed to print something, so the drivers are on the Powerbook now anyways, hen i goto add a windows Printer its looking for another workgroup, where in OS X do i change the workgroup? Also not saying im a big Guru or anything butr I would assume you wouldn't need the "printer" user on windows xp.... guess I wil find out. thanks for the help so far guys. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/129474-sharing-a-printer-on-windows-xp-machine/#findComment-1568219 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyLarry Veteran Posted January 9, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 9, 2004 sdenike said: I have installed the printer on my laptop becuase I needed to print something, so the drivers are on the Powerbook now anyways, hen i goto add a windows Printer its looking for another workgroup, where in OS X do i change the workgroup? Also not saying im a big Guru or anything butr I would assume you wouldn't need the "printer" user on windows xp.... guess I wil find out. thanks for the help so far guys. if you are able to get the windows machine to see the printer connected to the mac machine, by all means please share it when you do. everything i could do myself and also 6 calls with hp tech support still could not get my mac to share my hp photosmart with a windows xp machine. the xp machine will see it on the network, its status is "ready" in the windows printers and faxes control panel, and whenever i sent a page to be print it would go to the queue for a split second and then dissappear forever... i think the only way to get this to work is to have the printer connected to the windows machine and share it that way as you originally planned, not the other way around. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/129474-sharing-a-printer-on-windows-xp-machine/#findComment-1573945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Night Prowler Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 Go get an 80.00 print server and attach it to the network. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/129474-sharing-a-printer-on-windows-xp-machine/#findComment-1573968 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdenike Posted January 9, 2004 Author Share Posted January 9, 2004 Yeah i have since switched the printer back to the Windows XP machine and got it shared from there, Maybe this weekend if I get bored I will try to get it working on the laptop and able to print from the XP machine, thanks for the help again. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/129474-sharing-a-printer-on-windows-xp-machine/#findComment-1575467 Share on other sites More sharing options...
deviantdesigns Posted January 9, 2004 Share Posted January 9, 2004 i have a similar question just the oposite! hehe I have my AIO printer hooked up to my imac and it works fine, but i also want to be able to print from my laptop (pc) i've tried adding it but keeps saying that the correct drivers are not installed. Do i have to install the drivers on my pc also? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/129474-sharing-a-printer-on-windows-xp-machine/#findComment-1575814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DirtyLarry Veteran Posted January 10, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 10, 2004 deviantdesigns said: i have a similar question just the oposite! heheI have my AIO printer hooked up to my imac and it works fine, but i also want to be able to print from my laptop (pc) i've tried adding it but keeps saying that the correct drivers are not installed. Do i have to install the drivers on my pc also? yeah you do have to install the drivers on your xp machine for sure... but the problem i encountered is mac drivers and windows drivers are usually 2 different versions. meaning for example 2.01 for windows & 1.80 for mac. so this leads to problems (at least it did for me with my hp printer). windows was able to see the printer on my mac no problem through the add a printer and choosing network option. now the printer showed up in the windows control panel, showed it was ready, but as i said above i would print only for something to go in the queue and just disappear. the one and only way the printer on the mac would react from anything done from the windows side is through the hp toolbox, which lets you calibrate the printer, clean the heads, etc. etc. . everytime i used one of those options the printer would respond, only to feed out a blank piece of paper and nothing else. after getting 5 call backs from hp tech support, they finally admitted it was because the drivers were just not the same. they suggested just installing the drivers from the disk and problem should be solved (since the disk had both the windows and mac drivers) however since the disk was older the drivers were only for mac os 9 and below, not for any version of osX. so i imagine this is going to be the problem for not only hp printers but others as well. if your disk that came with the printer you want to set up has the drivers for both operating systems you need it for, defintely install them from there. install on your mac first and when you add a printer using the windows wizards on of the options will be install drivers, which you can then put in the cd-rom and browse for the windows drivers. technically speaking this should in theory work but it may very well not, since after all it is 2 different os's and even if they have the same version number on the drivers the drivers very well could indeed have different things in them themselves that cause the printer not to be truly shared. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/129474-sharing-a-printer-on-windows-xp-machine/#findComment-1581492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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