[X4U] Re: Network printing WinXP to OS 10.4.8 (John Erdman)

[Jon Warms]

Just did this yesterday.
1) What's the network name of your Mac? Mine is "Carly"
2) On the Mac, go to Printer Setup Utility, select your
printer, show info, and in the name box, put some easy
name. I called the HL2040, "CarlyPrint".
3) In Windows XP (SP2), I printed a document. Where it lists
the printers available (which are none right now), add
a printer.
4) In the Add a printer wizard, select the button that looks
on your local network.
5) On my system, I wrote (IIRC):
\\Carly\CarlyPrint. (This is my recollection, but the wizard
shows the format you should follow.)
6) It found CarlyPrint and added it to the Windows list.

7) And It printed.

HTH, Jon


> Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 00:04:58 -0500
> From: John Erdman <jperdman at earthlink.net>
>
> Hi Folks -
> I sure could use a good steer toward some detailed step by step
> instructions for printing from an XP client to a USB printer on an
> iMac G5 running OS 10.4.8.
>
> The computers are networked via hard wire ethernet thru a D-Link
> router. We have no trouble at all with the shared internet
> connection, just getting the two computers to talk to each other has
> been a problem.
>
> Can you suggest a site that has been helpful for you for setting up a
> XP(client)  to Mac-USB printer?