I have a new Canon Mp210 installed in my main home machine. All of the computers are connected to a router (4 total machines). I can print fine on the machine that the printer is installed on but I cannot add the printer on any of the other machines. The machines are on the same workgroup on the network. When I go to "add printer" and select browse for a network printer, I can see the computer that is connected to the printer, but the printer is not listed. I have turned on printer sharing, and turned off windows firewall on all of the computers. How can I get the printer to show up so that I can add it on the other systems?
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Setting up a network printer
- Thread starter Edman22
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You said you enabled printer sharing... Did you just 'enable' file and print sharing, or did you actually share the printer?
Right click the printer and choose Sharing. Give the share a name and set up access rights.
If you haven't completed this, then the printer is not truly shared yet.
Right click the printer and choose Sharing. Give the share a name and set up access rights.
If you haven't completed this, then the printer is not truly shared yet.
blendingnoise
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turn your firewall back on and do what the man above me said.
You said you enabled printer sharing... Did you just 'enable' file and print sharing, or did you actually share the printer?
Right click the printer and choose Sharing. Give the share a name and set up access rights.
If you haven't completed this, then the printer is not truly shared yet.
Yea sorry I forgot to mention, I had already done that. I right clicked on the printer and under the sharing tab I selected "share this printer" and gave it a name "mp210" Thats why this is confusing me...
blendingnoise
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stupid question, in the printer add wizard, after you choose to connect a network printer and add it, it shows the name of the computer under the workgroup. Did you double click the computer name to open the tree further?
Demon10000
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If the printer is shared correctly, there is no need to use the wizard to find it. Just go to start > run and type in \\<hostname> where <hostname> is the name or IP address of the computer that is sharing the printer.
A window will pop up and you'll either see the printer, or a folder called printers. If you see the folder, open it. Right click on the shared printer and choose connect from the menu. Assuming the proper drivers are on the host machine, it will install the printer for you after a blurb about making sure you trust that host.
A window will pop up and you'll either see the printer, or a folder called printers. If you see the folder, open it. Right click on the shared printer and choose connect from the menu. Assuming the proper drivers are on the host machine, it will install the printer for you after a blurb about making sure you trust that host.
stupid question, in the printer add wizard, after you choose to connect a network printer and add it, it shows the name of the computer under the workgroup. Did you double click the computer name to open the tree further?
yea, I've done this. There is nothing there under the computers name.
You either need to:
1) Enable simple file sharing
2) Enable the guest account (not recommended)
3) Create a user with the same username/password on the server machine that's on all the others.
I'm betting it's an authentication issue. You can tell by clicking start, run and then type in \\<servername> where <servername> is the name of the computer with the printer. If you get prompted for a username/password this is the case.
Riley
1) Enable simple file sharing
2) Enable the guest account (not recommended)
3) Create a user with the same username/password on the server machine that's on all the others.
I'm betting it's an authentication issue. You can tell by clicking start, run and then type in \\<servername> where <servername> is the name of the computer with the printer. If you get prompted for a username/password this is the case.
Riley
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You either need to:
1) Enable simple file sharing
2) Enable the guest account (not recommended)
3) Create a user with the same username/password on the server machine that's on all the others.
I'm betting it's an authentication issue. You can tell by clicking start, run and then type in \\<servername> where <servername> is the name of the computer with the printer. If you get prompted for a username/password this is the case.
Riley
I'm gonna agree with him, I would enable simple file sharing.
you guys are probably right. Late last night I got another machine working by adjusting the security settings in administrator tools. I just realized that the machine thats giving me the most trouble is xp home too which is only simple file sharing right? If I don't want to turn this feature off, is the next best thing to create a user with the same name on the machine connected to the printer?
You need to *enable* simple file sharing (SFS).. Or enable the guest account OR setup the identical username/passwords.. One of those three..
Enabling SFS actually enables the guest account at the same time. When someone connects to your machine they are identified as "guest" and guest is a member of the "everyone" group. So, if you're sharing files and/or printers you will also need to make sure that everyone and/or guest has permissions on the shared resource (printer, files, folders, etc.)
The only way to *disable* SFS in XP Home is either to boot in safe mode or I think you can do it with replacing some files or registry keys from XP Pro.
Edit: I almost forgot. If you have SFS *enabled* then the default behaviour of XP is to use the "ForceGuest" feature. This will cause ALL remote connection to be authenticated as guest EVEN IF they have matching username/passwords on both machines. You need to either disable the ForceGuest registry key or disable SFS.
Riley
Enabling SFS actually enables the guest account at the same time. When someone connects to your machine they are identified as "guest" and guest is a member of the "everyone" group. So, if you're sharing files and/or printers you will also need to make sure that everyone and/or guest has permissions on the shared resource (printer, files, folders, etc.)
The only way to *disable* SFS in XP Home is either to boot in safe mode or I think you can do it with replacing some files or registry keys from XP Pro.
Edit: I almost forgot. If you have SFS *enabled* then the default behaviour of XP is to use the "ForceGuest" feature. This will cause ALL remote connection to be authenticated as guest EVEN IF they have matching username/passwords on both machines. You need to either disable the ForceGuest registry key or disable SFS.
Riley
I see. So, as of now, I have tried creating a username with the exact same name and pass as the one from the xp home machine, but it no longer seems to be part of the network. Whereas before I could actually see the other computers, now that isn't the case. I have gotten the two xp pro machines working, and they can connect and print.
The workgroup name and everything is still the same, so I don't know why I can't see the other computers in the network anymore. Maybe I'll try to also enable the guest account.
The workgroup name and everything is still the same, so I don't know why I can't see the other computers in the network anymore. Maybe I'll try to also enable the guest account.
Concentric
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If the printer is shared correctly, there is no need to use the wizard to find it. Just go to start > run and type in \\<hostname> where <hostname> is the name or IP address of the computer that is sharing the printer.
A window will pop up and you'll either see the printer, or a folder called printers. If you see the folder, open it. Right click on the shared printer and choose connect from the menu. Assuming the proper drivers are on the host machine, it will install the printer for you after a blurb about making sure you trust that host.
^ This is what i was going to say.
I don't see why he needs Simple File Sharing enabled - i have it off on all my machines and have done the above before with success.
^ This is what i was going to say.
I don't see why he needs Simple File Sharing enabled - i have it off on all my machines and have done the above before with success.
Because basically it boils down to whether or not you have the guest account enabled or matching usernames/passwords on both boxes if you have SFS *disabled*. It will work fine with SFS disabled, but you need to do slightly more work.
Enabling SFS is the easiest way to do what he wants with the fewest number of clicks