Printing from a mac to windows vista across a network

[Guest fletcher.sean@gmail.com]

We have a small network with a single macintosh computer.

The printers are both attached to the windows vista machine.

I've shared both of these printers on the vista machine, and the mac

can see them. However, the mac isn't able to successfully send a

print job to the printer.

Any idea why that is?

 

Thanks!

Fletch

[Guest Juergen Kluth]

Re: Printing from a mac to windows vista across a network

 

Hi,

I have NO experience with apple, but you may have a look here :

http://www.tomshardware.com/de/mit-dem-apple-mac-ins-windows-netzwerk,testberichte-1335-7.html

its in german and you may translate it via google ?!

 

Another solution might be InternetPrintingProtocol IPP

 

jk

[Guest Jud Hendrix]

Re: Printing from a mac to windows vista across a network

 

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:00:47 +0200, "Juergen Kluth" <jkluth@t-onlinr.de>

wrote:

>Hi,

>I have NO experience with apple, but you may have a look here :

 

This article talks about printing from a Mac-Mini (OS-X 10.4 Tiger) going

the wireless route to a PC (unspecified Windows).

You search from the Mac's pinter-manager for a Windows printer, log-on (as

admin) on the PC network, and then you should see a list of selecteable

printers connected to the PC, add the one you want, and it should show up

in the list on the Mac's pinter-manager.

 

jud

[Guest John Adams]

Re: Printing from a mac to windows vista across a network

 

This sounds like a permissions/authentication issue. On your Vista machine,

check your Network and Sharing Center. If you have password-protected

sharing turned on, everything you share requires that valid local

credentials be supplied prior to accessing them. This normally happens

seamlessly if you have the same account names and passwords on multiple

machines. You could try two things:

 

1. Turn password-protected sharing off. (Note: this setting causes Vista

to authenticate all network users as "Guest". Yhis means that everyone on

the network will receive read-only access to all your shared resources.)

2. Try adding the mac account name/password to your Windows machine as its

own account. (You can remove the account from the Users group in Computer

Manager to keep this account off of your startup account selection screen).

 

- John

----- Original Message -----

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Subject: Printing from a mac to windows vista across a network

 

> We have a small network with a single macintosh computer.

> The printers are both attached to the windows vista machine.

> I've shared both of these printers on the vista machine, and the mac

> can see them. However, the mac isn't able to successfully send a

> print job to the printer.

> Any idea why that is?

>

> Thanks!

> Fletch

>

 

<fletcher.sean@gmail.com> wrote in message

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> We have a small network with a single macintosh computer.

> The printers are both attached to the windows vista machine.

> I've shared both of these printers on the vista machine, and the mac

> can see them. However, the mac isn't able to successfully send a

> print job to the printer.

> Any idea why that is?

>

> Thanks!

> Fletch

>