Comments on: Sharing a USB printer from Mac OS X to Windows

By: mr. burns

mr. burns — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:47:43 +0000

Hi all,

I did the steps mentined here, but unfortunately no success.
In WIndows I can install the printer as described here, but it shows ‘Access denied; no connection possible’.
If I login to CUBS webpage inside Windows (http://imac:631) I can see the printer and I can print a testpage without problems.
If I look into the CUPS log I see:

POST /printers/Canon_MP600_1 HTTP/1.1″ 200 894274 Print-Job client-error-not-authorized

It seems I don’t have permissions to print on Mac OS out of Windows :-(

Any ideas?

By: Carlos

Carlos — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:15:54 +0000

Thanks for the post, but I’m getting the following error when I put the IP address into Windows: “Windows cannot connect to the printer. Either the printer name was typed incorrectly, or the specified printer has lost its connection to the server”. I’ve checked my work twice and it seems that Windows isn’t even trying to check the address when “:631″ is added to the IP address. Any ideas?

By: mike v

mike v — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:51:58 +0000

Great! it worked
NOTE: dont forget to “start printer” in above mentioned cups web page on your mac.

I wonder why smb sharing way did not work and the resulted printer produced garbage, but now its ok with cups!

By: mali

mali — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:34:47 +0000

Well done! thank you

By: david

david — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:25:26 +0000

Excellent and a thousand thanks!

By: Rich

Rich — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:46:38 +0000

This worked absolutely perfectly! My XP and Vista machines are now sharing the HP Laserjet 1200 connected to my iMac over my network. Thank you for the excellent information!

By: Hiro

Hiro — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:22:03 +0000

thanks, just what i was looking for!

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:54:15 +0000

Great post. Absolute newbie on Mac and never shared a printer before – was able to do this at first attempt. Do correct step 2 though, I could’t see an option called Windows Sharing either – went on regardless and it worked.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:53:06 +0000

Thanks for sorting this out. I couldn’t get the built-in printer sharing to work between Leopard and Vista. This worked like a charm.

By: Tim Brazer

Tim Brazer — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:10:08 +0000

This helped me out a lot here.

For some reason Windows 7 build 7057 x64 doesn’t see Printers being shared by a Mac.

Thanks!

By: Bob Nielsen

Bob Nielsen — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:43:25 +0000

That should have read “I decided to try Bonjour”.

By: Bob Nielsen

Bob Nielsen — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:38:44 +0000

I couldn’t get around that error, but decided Bonjour, which I had seen mentioned elsewhere. I installed it and ran the printer setup. Bonjour recognized the printer connected to my Mac and selected a postscript driver. Printing was up and running in less than a minute.

By: Bob Nielsen

Bob Nielsen — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:57:42 +0000

I followed the directions (the mime octet stream lines were already uncommented), but got the following error:

Unable to install printer. Operation could not be completed (error 0×000006be).

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:41:31 +0000

this was just what the doctor ordered, except now i have 2 printers listed in the print & fax system preference pane. no biggy though because it works!!!!! THANKS!!

By: John

John — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:54:12 +0000

I have the same problem Patrick had. However, I know very little unix, only enough to do something stupid. I can get into root and find the log files, but that is it. Is there another way to make this printing work? Or could someone post more complete commands in unix to do this?

Thanks for your help
John