Sharing a printer from Mac to Windows

[Gerard O'Neill]

I've found lots of entries in various forums about sharing Windows printers with Macs, but I can't find out how to intall a printer in Windows (2003 Server in this case) from a printer that is physically installed on and shared from a Mac (OS 10.4). Can any one provide any advice?

Thanks,
Gerard O'Neill.

 

[Dopeyman]

I've found lots of entries in various forums about sharing Windows printers with Macs, but I can't find out how to intall a printer in Windows (2003 Server in this case) from a printer that is physically installed on and shared from a Mac (OS 10.4). Can any one provide any advice?

Thanks,
Gerard O'Neill.

I installed Dave on my Mac to be able to share the printer with my laptop.. My laptop is running XP home... But it should still work regardless of what OS your PC has..

 

[Danksi]

I've found lots of entries in various forums about sharing Windows printers with Macs, but I can't find out how to intall a printer in Windows (2003 Server in this case) from a printer that is physically installed on and shared from a Mac (OS 10.4). Can any one provide any advice?

Thanks,
Gerard O'Neill.

I have a HP2175 all in one attached (USB) to my iMac, which 'Windows File System' and 'Print Shares' with both my wife's Windows XP laptop and my iBook.

Unfortunately there appears to be a bug with HP printers, whereby the drivers need to match on all machines for it to work correctly. This doesn't seem possible on the Mac and PC combo - since the drivers are at different versions!

 

[go habs go]

hello,
what is DAVE and will let me share a printer on my imac with a windows xp machine at home?
Thanks

 

[Dopeyman]

hello,
what is DAVE and will let me share a printer on my imac with a windows xp machine at home?
Thanks

Everyone...... Say hello to DAVE...

I personally use it and it makes it easy/easier to share a printer connected to a Mac.....

 

[Danksi]

hello,
what is DAVE and will let me share a printer on my imac with a windows xp machine at home?
Thanks

I was wondering the same thing, but found it on www.macupdate.com.

 

[belvdr]

I have a HP2175 all in one attached (USB) to my iMac, which 'Windows File System' and 'Print Shares' with both my wife's Windows XP laptop and my iBook.

Unfortunately there appears to be a bug with HP printers, whereby the drivers need to match on all machines for it to work correctly. This doesn't seem possible on the Mac and PC combo - since the drivers are at different versions!

No bug here. I have an HP OfficeJet 5510 all-in-one connected to my iMac via USB. My laptop is running XP Pro and prints fine. I have Printer Sharing and Windows Sharing enabled, and use the HP Color LaserJet 4550 PS driver on the XP laptop.

Whenever you share a printer on the Mac, it seems you should always use a PostScript driver on the PC clients.

Everyone...... Say hello to DAVE...

I personally use it and it makes it easy/easier to share a printer connected to a Mac.....

I've never needed additional software. Just enabling Windows Sharing and Printer Sharing has done it for me.

 

[mad jew]

Maybe look at Bonjour for Windows.

 

[tangerineyum]

Maybe look at Bonjour for Windows.

Awww i was reading through all the posts and just waiting to suggest bonjour for windows, alas it was not to be.

 

[mad jew]

Great minds think alike.

Oh, and I love your signature.

 

[belvdr]

Great minds think alike.

Oh, and I love your signature.

Am I missing something here?

 

[iEdd]

Am I missing something here?

Maybe he just wants to own all that mac gear

 

[mikes63737]

I've never needed additional software. Just enabling Windows Sharing and Printer Sharing has done it for me.

Same here, however, I can't get my HP DeskJet 5940 to work with it. Like a previous poster said, the drivers for HP printers have to be the same, which is impossible. This has worked fine with my Epson Stylus Photo R200.

 

[mad jew]

Am I missing something here?

Okay, it's either changed or I'm madder than I give myself credit for...

 

[Cooknn]

Question regarding Bonjour for Windows... If a printer is setup on a new Mac Mini and I have my son install Bonjour for Windows on his PC, will the printer automatically show up, or does something have to be enabled on the Mac? Hoping that it all happens without additional intervention so I don't have to go to the ex-wifes house unless I absolutely have to

 

[mad jew]

Mac-side, I turn on Printer Sharing in System Preferences (it's in the Sharing pane) and then play from there.

People have had different experiences with Bonjour for Windows, but for me it was merely a matter of plug-and-play.

 

[zephya]

similar issue using pc bonjour to print to r300 on mac

config:
r300 attached by usb to imac g5 osx 10.4.6
attached by builtin ethernet to belkin wireless router 802.11 54mbit
attached wirelessly to laptop xp sp2.
latest r300 drivers on both mac and laptop
bonjour 1.0.3 installed on laptop, norton firewall enabled tcp & udp in and out to local net on port 5353
printer and filesharing enabled on both pc & mac
1.5gb ram on each machine, 20gb+ free space on each machine

mac can see laptop
laptop can see mac and attached printer
pc bonjour times out on last step of wizard (copying hplips1.ini) if generic postscript printer driver selected for mac r300 but "apparently" succeeds if r300 driver selected. Either way get "success" message on printing to mac printer from laptop BUT mac shows untitled print held on queue with unspecified error and no print emerges. am logged on as admin and have write privs to all directories on both machines (not what I do normally but wanted to makes sure privs not causing issue)

Am able to print direct from mac, or if printer attached to usb on laptop, so it must be to do with bonjour or the ipp driver used with bonjour.

can't find hplips1.ini file so unable to do manual postscript print driver file to windows/system32/spool/drivers/w32x86/....

Please can anyone help with further suggestions ?

Thanks in advance
Zephya

 

[Cooknn]

Mac-side, I turn on Printer Sharing in System Preferences (it's in the Sharing pane) and then play from there.

People have had different experiences with Bonjour for Windows, but for me it was merely a matter of plug-and-play.

Thanks MJ. I think my 11 year old can handle that

 

[mad jew]

No worries. Good luck to you and your eleven year old.

 

[zephya]

.... any chance of borrowing your 11-year-old to fix my printing ?

Zeph

 

[zephya]

Success xp laptop printing wirelessly to mac usb inkjet

Thanks to a hint from another forum managed to do it by using CUPS on mac to configure my printer specifically for network use in addition to the existing mac printer definition.

I am running xp pro sp 2 on a laptop with bonjour 1.0.3 wireless connection to belkin router which is connected by ethernet to an imac with an usb inkjet.

Having made sure file-sharing and printer sharing enabled behind firewall on both machines bonjour could see my "mac" defined printer but couldn't print to it - the cups trick described in this link http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021101062604548
sorted it for me. I discovered that under 10.4.6 the raw bits were already enabled so was able to skip to instruction 6 for the mac part of the hint.

The pc part of the hint was mostly redundant because as soon as the printer was properly configred on the mac for network use I was able to use bonjour with the correct drivers - I didn't even have to faff around with postscript/apple drivers - I can use the full functionality of the printer using the pc drivers
Hope this helps someone else as much as it helped me - regards - Zeph