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Printing to Mac shared printer from Windows
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I've enabled Printer Sharing and (Windows) Network File Sharing on my G5, and the OS X filesharing control panel states that Windows will be able to print to shared printers when these services are on.
Does anyone know the proper Windows settings to access such a printer on OS X? Couldn't find them in the Apple knowledge base.
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From Mac Help:
Sharing your printer with Windows users via SMB
You can let computers on your local network that use Windows use any printer connected to your computer. You can share both PostScript and non-PostScript printers with Windows users; however, Windows users must always send PostScript print jobs to your computer.
-Open System Preferences and click Sharing.
-Click Services.
-Select the Windows Sharing checkbox.
To print to your printer, Windows users must configure an SMB network printer. Have them see their Windows documentation on adding a network printer.
Documents waiting to print on printers you're sharing are stored on your hard disk. (That is, your computer hosts the queue for the printer.)
Tip: To help others discover where to pick up their printed documents, open System Preferences, click Print & Fax, click Printing, and then click the Set Up Printers button. Select a printer, choose Printers > Show Info, and type a clear description of the printer's location in the Location field.
It should also be possible to set it up using LPR -- Panther's printer sharing pretends to be (among other things) a PostScript laser printer with LPR, so pretty much any operating system can print to it.
tooki
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Originally posted by tooki:
From Mac Help:
It should also be possible to set it up using LPR -- Panther's printer sharing pretends to be (among other things) a PostScript laser printer with LPR, so pretty much any operating system can print to it.
tooki
I've seen this document, but the PC doesn't see the printer. It sees the G5, but not the printer. Can't figure it out...
But, since Rendezvous was released for WinXP today, I'll give that a try.
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Did the rendevous work for you? Also, do you have XP home or professional. I had the same problem you did, and then rendevous for XP came out but it only seemed to work for Pro. Let me know what happened with yhours please.
--Brandon
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Originally posted by Cadaver:
I've enabled Printer Sharing and (Windows) Network File Sharing on my G5, and the OS X filesharing control panel states that Windows will be able to print to shared printers when these services are on.
Does anyone know the proper Windows settings to access such a printer on OS X? Couldn't find them in the Apple knowledge base.
I had to manually enter the IP address of my USB connected CUPS printer, looking like this:
\\ http://10.0.1.2:631/PRINTER_NAME
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