Panther Printer Sharing With a windows PC

Daniel Brieck djbrieck at mac.com
Thu Nov 6 12:57:33 PST 2003


I installed panther os 10.3 hoping  that I would be able to print to my 
macs USB printer from my windows XP based laptop and of-course it does 
not work. I have a power mac g4 500(Mac os X.3) connected to a wireless 
router via ethernet, and a dell laptop (Windows XP pro) either 
connected via ethernet or wireless. The printer is a Canon i550 
connected to the mac via usb. The printer prints fine from the mac. I 
think that I have the configuration set right on the mac, but I am not 
sure. The printer shows up on the pc and appears to configured, by 
showing up as a available printer. The printer, however, never prints 
the documents , i don't even think they reach the Mac, because if it 
did the mac would probably pop up a printer icon in the dock. Nothing 
happens, i think the driver is not configured right on the pc.   Has 
anyone been successful sharing a printer connected to a mac to a 
windows pc?

Dan Brieck Jr.



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