Jan 26 2010
Wireless Printing: Mac to PC
In the past week, I have purchased a Macbook Pro. I’ve managed to set up a wireless network so that I could transfer photos, music and other files from my PC running Vista. Setting up wireless printing from my Mac, through the PC has been a challenge.
I was doing alright at first. After looking over countless webpages, I found out how to add the printer to the Mac. I had it that it would queue up on the PC. After that, everything fizzled out. I could not get anything to printer from the Mac. In the process of double checking everything, I am not able to get the Mac to see the printer on the PC.
Any suggestions?
Probably a sharing permission on the Vista machine. Sharing and permissions overall is a colossal nightmare in Vista and the wrong setting on one (of a confusing multitude) of security and/or sharing options can lead to a situation like this.
In a pinch, until you do get it figured out, just plug the printer directly into one of your Macbooks – it’ll work right away, no drivers it installation of anything required.
Well, I’m not sure how I did it, but I got wireless printing to work. I tried again to set it up on my Mac, and it worked no problem. I tried on my wife’s Macbook and got it to work
And I don’t know why..