New to the forum and I didn't really see an appropriate place to put this so if it should be somewhere else please move it. Also posted this elsewhere and the only feedback I got so far is apparently this works in Vail too.
Works great for me. This is the bare minimum you need to get AirPrint working on a Windows Home Server. Assumes you have your ios 4.2.1 device on the same network as your Windows Home Server. Why use WHS? Because it should be running and available all the time. Your favorite computer you use iTunes on may not always be on or connected.
1. RDP into your homeserver, use the administrator account.
2. Install drivers for your printer, share it and make it your default printer (not covered here, same as any other windows computer). If you have the option I would strongly suggest you chose a driver only install, you don't need a full suite of MFP scanner or print center garbage.
3. Download iTunes x86 version, do NOT install it.
4. Extract the file "Bonjour.msi" from the iTunes installer with 7zip or your zip program of choice.
5. Run Bonjour.msi to install Bonjour. When complete check your system service for "Bonjour Service", it should be running with automatic startup.
6. Download AirPrint system service: http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=260018&d=1289596059
7. Extract the three files to "C:\Program Files\AirPrint\" (you will have to create that folder).
8. Run "C:\Program Files\AirPrint\airprint.exe" you should see a firewall warning that you need to approve so AirPrint can access your network. Once you have approved the firewall warning you can close the DOS box.
9. Run these two commands from the command prompt, just start run cmd to open command prompt. Once done if you want to check you should have an AirPrint system service now that is set to auto startup and presently running.
10. In your ios 4.2.1 device select print (do it from email to test), in the printer options you need to search for a printer, it should find your printer with the shared name you selected in step 2. It will have a little lock symbol next to it.
11. ios will ask for a user and password, use "administrator" and whatever password you set up on your homeserver for that account.
12. In theory your printer should be printing something now. I won't be much help in troubleshooting because it worked first try for me but post away and we will see what we can do.
Credits:
Originally spotted this on tipb but copying the command line text from that page didn't work for me because their text is formatted and uses the wrong quotes.
http://www.tipb.com/2010/11/23/ninja-tip-reenable-network-airprint-windows/
This guy for the airprint portion, if you are having trouble try watching the vid, really good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GlHQHB-74U
I guess this is where it all came from, Enabled AirPrint in iOS 4.2/iTunes 10.1/Shared Printers/Windows 7 post from Nov 12.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1047779/
iTunes without bloatware article.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/the-unofficial-guide-to-installing-itunes-10-without-bloatware/2390
Works great for me. This is the bare minimum you need to get AirPrint working on a Windows Home Server. Assumes you have your ios 4.2.1 device on the same network as your Windows Home Server. Why use WHS? Because it should be running and available all the time. Your favorite computer you use iTunes on may not always be on or connected.
1. RDP into your homeserver, use the administrator account.
2. Install drivers for your printer, share it and make it your default printer (not covered here, same as any other windows computer). If you have the option I would strongly suggest you chose a driver only install, you don't need a full suite of MFP scanner or print center garbage.
3. Download iTunes x86 version, do NOT install it.
4. Extract the file "Bonjour.msi" from the iTunes installer with 7zip or your zip program of choice.
5. Run Bonjour.msi to install Bonjour. When complete check your system service for "Bonjour Service", it should be running with automatic startup.
6. Download AirPrint system service: http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=260018&d=1289596059
7. Extract the three files to "C:\Program Files\AirPrint\" (you will have to create that folder).
8. Run "C:\Program Files\AirPrint\airprint.exe" you should see a firewall warning that you need to approve so AirPrint can access your network. Once you have approved the firewall warning you can close the DOS box.
9. Run these two commands from the command prompt, just start run cmd to open command prompt. Once done if you want to check you should have an AirPrint system service now that is set to auto startup and presently running.
10. In your ios 4.2.1 device select print (do it from email to test), in the printer options you need to search for a printer, it should find your printer with the shared name you selected in step 2. It will have a little lock symbol next to it.
11. ios will ask for a user and password, use "administrator" and whatever password you set up on your homeserver for that account.
12. In theory your printer should be printing something now. I won't be much help in troubleshooting because it worked first try for me but post away and we will see what we can do.
Credits:
Originally spotted this on tipb but copying the command line text from that page didn't work for me because their text is formatted and uses the wrong quotes.
http://www.tipb.com/2010/11/23/ninja-tip-reenable-network-airprint-windows/
This guy for the airprint portion, if you are having trouble try watching the vid, really good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GlHQHB-74U
I guess this is where it all came from, Enabled AirPrint in iOS 4.2/iTunes 10.1/Shared Printers/Windows 7 post from Nov 12.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1047779/
iTunes without bloatware article.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/the-unofficial-guide-to-installing-itunes-10-without-bloatware/2390
