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Sharing an AppleTalk printer with Windows 2000.. How?
Authored by: mannikin on Nov 19, '03 02:59:57PM

Hi,

Thank you for some great instructions. I've been using your instructions plus the ones in this other hint page: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20021101062604548

I'm still not able to connect from my Windows 2000 machine. Allow me to give a brief listing of the network setup:

- Our network consists of a OSX Panther Server
- Windows sharing service is on, so we can map our Transfer drives on both Mac & Windows machines
- We have a bunch of HP LaserJet printers, which we use on our macs using AppleTalk and Rendevouz (on the OSX machines)

I went ahead and created a printer on the OS X server, basically pointing to one of our shared LaserJet printers. I tested this to make sure it does print, which it did. Then, I connected to the CUPS admin page (http://localhost:631/printers

I was able to see the printer I had just created on this page. The settings were as follows:
Description: HP 4050 Graphics
Location: Local zone
Printer State: idle, accepting jobs
Device URI: pap://*/HP%204050%20Graphics/LaserWriter

I went ahead and created a new printer for the windows machine:
Name: HP_GRAPHIC (I made sure it was 10 characters)
Location: transfer (the instruction said to use the name of the server)
Device: I used the Appletalk protocol (pap) and used the same Device URI as above
Make: RAW
Model: Raw Queue

I sent a test page to test it out, which it worked fine.

In my windows 2000 machine, I went ahead and added the network printer, pointing to this address: http://192.168.50.4:631/printers/HP_GRAPHIC

I constantly get a connection error, telling me the printer is not connected, or it can't find it.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
John





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Sharing an AppleTalk printer with Windows 2000.. How?
Authored by: justame on Feb 28, '05 12:46:52AM

I have been trying to print from my pc running Windows Xp to a Brother MFC-3100C on my wifes G4 Mac. I tried all of the steps listed above but had no luck. I then found this link http://www.ifelix.co.uk/tech/3000.html here in another forum and was finally able to print from my PC.

Also, what I found after doing everything was that I had to configure my port: start>printers & Faxes >right click on printer>ports>configure ports>Click the circle next to: Use the specified user account, then enter the admin username and password for the Mac that the printer is attached to. After doing this I was off and printing. Hope this helps!



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