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louisxiv

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Jan 5, 2010, 3:52:40 PM1/5/10
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I've managed against the odds (I'm a self-confessed Luddite) to set up
something resembling a network in my home office and am running an imac
(with router attached by yellow ethernet cable and a macbook Pro which
connects by Airport. My printer is connected to the imac by a usb cable
and has no ethernet port/socket so i can't attach it to my router.

I've managed to set up file sharing and have tried in System
Preferences > Sharing to set up printer sharing and Printer Sharing is
on and the 'Share this Printer on the network' box is ticked for my
printer yet I get a message saying Printer is offline when i try to
print from the Macbook.

Am I missing something really obvious here?

TIA for any advice.

Louis


J.J. O'Shea

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Jan 5, 2010, 4:07:00 PM1/5/10
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On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 15:52:40 -0500, louisxiv wrote
(in article <201001052...@news.plus.net>):

1 do you have the correct printer driver selected on both machines?

2 is the iMac on and awake when you try to print from the MacBook?

3 what kind of printer is this? I hope it's not a HP...

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David Empson

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Jan 5, 2010, 5:00:37 PM1/5/10
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<louisxiv> wrote:

Quite possibly. Exactly how are you accessing the printer on the MacBook
Pro?

If you have at some point added the printer while it was directly
connected to the MacBook Pro via USB, you will have a print queue for a
USB-connected printer. That print queue does NOT talk to the network
shared printer on another computer. If you try to print, it will be
attempting to find a locally connected printer, which is obviously
offline because it is plugged into the other iMac.

In the Print dialog on the MacBook Pro, click on the menu to select a
printer. Depending on the version of Mac OS X you are running you should
see either an entry like "printer model @ name of your iMac", or a
"Shared Printers" submenu, with the printer on the iMac inside that.

Select that entry and you should be able to print over the network.

The iMac must be on and not sleeping, but hard drive and display sleep
are OK.
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David Empson
dem...@actrix.gen.nz

louisxiv

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Jan 5, 2010, 5:31:14 PM1/5/10
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Still not working I'm afraid. Now when I try to see my Macbook files
over the network it's asking for the name and password for the server
"My Name's MacBook pro" and the Name that is coming up automatically is
my name, not the nickname I use for log in password protection. I've
never used my name on either machine, always a nickname. I'm baffled
and pissed off!


Christian

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Jan 5, 2010, 5:49:15 PM1/5/10
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<louisxiv> wrote:

> Still not working I'm afraid. Now when I try to see my Macbook files
> over the network it's asking for the name and password for the server
> "My Name's MacBook pro" and the Name that is coming up automatically is
> my name, not the nickname I use for log in password protection.

So why not enter the correct info for the "server" machine?


> I've never used my name on either machine, always a nickname.

To log in you can use either of the two. You have given your name when
you have set up this computer.


> I'm baffled and pissed off!

I don't like to be pissed at me.

Christian

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louisxiv

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Jan 5, 2010, 5:54:08 PM1/5/10
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On 2010-01-05 22:49:15 +0000, christi...@chance-for-children.org
(Christian) said:

> <louisxiv> wrote:
>
>> Still not working I'm afraid. Now when I try to see my Macbook files
>> over the network it's asking for the name and password for the server
>> "My Name's MacBook pro" and the Name that is coming up automatically is
>> my name, not the nickname I use for log in password protection.
>
> So why not enter the correct info for the "server" machine?
>
>
>> I've never used my name on either machine, always a nickname.
>
> To log in you can use either of the two. You have given your name when
> you have set up this computer.
>
>
>> I'm baffled and pissed off!
>
> I don't like to be pissed at me.
>
> Christian

Thanks. The username and password have worked so I now have file
sharing but still not printer sharing.

louisxiv

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Jan 5, 2010, 6:44:04 PM1/5/10
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Yay! Just cracked it. Printer sharing up and running..


David Empson

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Jan 5, 2010, 7:37:05 PM1/5/10
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<louisxiv> wrote:

Exactly which printer model is it, and which OS version are you running
on each computer?

Some printers are not compatible with print sharing.

If someone else has the same model they may have tried this and
discovered whether or not it worked.

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David Empson
dem...@actrix.gen.nz

louisxiv

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Jan 6, 2010, 8:07:50 AM1/6/10
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Sorted it thanks, but cheers for your help.

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