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Sharing a printer w/ Windows
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Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Berkshire, UK
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Has any one ever successfully shared a USB printer between a Mac and Windows? I have tried and tried and never actually met with success- I'm starting to believe the whole thing is just a myth.
I currently have a Canon Pixma MP780 hooked up via USB to my G4 tower, whoch is running 10.3.9. It works fine.
I am sharing the printer, as well as doing windos file sharing, which works fine. My wife's Dell laptop sees the printer, allows me to connect to it, I manually load the dirvers and everything looks like it's working, but nothing actually happens when I go to print. There are no jobs showing in the print queue on either machine (it stays in the one on the dell for a min, then goes away as if it has printed, never shows up on the mac). I get no error message, just no print job ever appears. I suppose I could try it in the reverse, but I don't actually want that- it's a multi-function I want working on my mac for scanning.
Does anyone have any thougts? Neither Canon or Apple offer support on this setup. Damn it's frustrating.
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Paco is bitter about the loss of his .mac webpage. Image will return when his sadness lessens.
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: San Antonio TX USA
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I have not done this-all my printer sharing has been through a print server because of the problems with sharing them through computers-but I do know that some USB printers don't share well, nor do they network well. That means that in some cases a USB printer won't work EXCEPT when plugged into a computer and when used by that computer. Hopefully someone will have an idea on this.
As an alternative, you could get a USB switch. These allow you to connect multiple computers to the same USB device, and simply switch between the computers when you need to use that device. It's probably the only way to get one of those "all-in-one" USB devices to do everything for more than one computer. It may be your answer, too.
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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USB print servers (I've tried a few brands) have proved much flakier than parallel, in my experience. As ghporter said, a USB switch would be the best option.
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Join Date: Apr 2000
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Thanks for the input. Sucks, as the point is to be able to print remotely from both mac and pc laptops, which I can't do w/ the switch.
Ah, well. Maybe Tiger will shake it loose.
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