Hello Everybody,
I have a usb printer and 1 macosx desktop and 1 windows xp laptop. I need both computers to be able to print but I'm having some issues. Currently the usb connection is plugged into the laptop and shared there.
When I had the usb connection in the mac it would attempt to print and will send the document to the printer but not actually print it. I will have to go over there and tell it to "reprint" what it's spooled. Btw, the printer is a HL-2700 and for various reasons the onboard network can not be used.
When I have it hooked directly to the XP machine everything works fine printing from XP, I can share the printer and print from other XP machines too but the mac refuses to connect to the printer. I even tried using using shared network printer via samba with smb://ipaddress/printername and I selected the correct driver too. It just gives not connecting errors that samba can't connect
For some reason it just can't connect. I tried smb client and then I got a error there too saying it can't connect. Please what am I doing wrong?
Alternatively I tried connecting it to the mac desktop which would be idea. It immediatley recognises it and can print but then after a while it just spools the data and doens't print it. Also after a while I get messages saying access is denied.
I have a usb printer and 1 macosx desktop and 1 windows xp laptop. I need both computers to be able to print but I'm having some issues. Currently the usb connection is plugged into the laptop and shared there.
When I had the usb connection in the mac it would attempt to print and will send the document to the printer but not actually print it. I will have to go over there and tell it to "reprint" what it's spooled. Btw, the printer is a HL-2700 and for various reasons the onboard network can not be used.
When I have it hooked directly to the XP machine everything works fine printing from XP, I can share the printer and print from other XP machines too but the mac refuses to connect to the printer. I even tried using using shared network printer via samba with smb://ipaddress/printername and I selected the correct driver too. It just gives not connecting errors that samba can't connect
For some reason it just can't connect. I tried smb client and then I got a error there too saying it can't connect. Please what am I doing wrong?
Alternatively I tried connecting it to the mac desktop which would be idea. It immediatley recognises it and can print but then after a while it just spools the data and doens't print it. Also after a while I get messages saying access is denied.
