About Bob Wood Expertise I can help in MAC networking and problems. No PC expierence, but can guide you to useful info on networking Macs and PCs, and software available for crossplatform networking.
Experience 10 years Mac expierence. 6 years tech support.
Question I've just purcased a new Dual 2.8 G5 and would like to add this to my PC network at home. I have an Epson Photo printer and an HP all in one that are both currently connected to my PC and shared on my wireless network so I can access from my notebook. How can I use these printers with my new Mac? Thank you in advance!
Answer Hi Josh
Hopefully. you're running XP on the PC. Follow this;
On your Windows XP Machine:
1. Log in as Administrator
2. Click Start>Settings>Control Panel
3. Then Click add/remove programs
4. Then Click add/remove windows components
5. Open the Other Network File and Printer Services section.
6. Put a checkmark in Print Services for Unix.
7. Click Ok; Click Next ( It will probably ask for your Windows Cd at this point)
8. Click finish
9. Close the add/remove programs window
Next steps will have the service start automatically, which is the prefered way to do it:
1. Click Start>Settings>Control Panel
2. Double click Administrative tools
3. Double click Services
4. Double click TCP/IP print server
5. Change the startup type to Automatic
6. Click ok and close all open windows.
Next steps setup the printer for tcp/ip printing
1. Click start>settings>printers
2. Right click the printer you want to share and select sharing
3. Click the radio button for Share as and fill in the share name you want to use.
Now move to your Mac and finish things up.
1. Launch the Print Center for the Applications>Utilties folder
2. Click the Add Printer button
3. Change Appletalk to IP Printing
4. Enter the Windows XP Computer's IP address in the Address Box (Will probably look like 192.168.x.x, if you don't know go to your windows xp machine and from the Command Prompt type ipconfig, it will give you the network address for your windows machine
5. Uncheck the default queue radio button
6. Enter the name of the printer shared name that you setup on your windows machine.
7. Select your printer model, if you installed gimp print it should be there, if not pic a close model number.
8. Close print center after the printer was added.
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The All-in-One will most likely only print from the Mac, the other functions won't work sharing.
