Hi,
I am yet another mac user struggling to get his Mac to print through a windows computer. I know there are a ton of these threads and have infact looked at a few of them. I have tried the following threads:
Thread1,
Thread2,
Thread3,
Googled Article
My Network Consists of: (Network Name="Home")
Printer - HP PSC 2175 all-in-one (which is connected to the Dell machine)
Dell Dimension 4600 - running XP (Has Unix printer support installed through add/remove windows components) Is connected to my Linksys router
Custom PC - running XP
Macbook
Now I can print off of both XP machines to my printer without a problem. So I go into PrinterSetupUtitlity on my Macbook and do the following.
*The Generic tab stays unavailable during this part*
Now the printer should be listed in the last box because it is under my Mothers PC. However it does not show up at all. I tried going through my brothers computer and I was able to see his "Microsoft Office Document Image Writer" but not the shared printer I am looking for.
So I try the manual way of entering in the IP address. Here is my setup for my Printer using this method:
I try and print and I just get this:
I have no clue as to why I am unable to get my Macbook to print to my windows shared printer
. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advanced, again sorry for the lengthy post but I am trying to be as thorough as possible. Thanks!
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