Eggswhysaid

Hi

Hopefully another Mac user might be able to help me here

Basically, got a PC running Vista, an a printer Epson R300 connected to it via USB. The Printer is shared.

The pc is connected to a netgear wifi router.

We have a new mac book pro (great bit of kit ) running OSX and trying to setup the system to print to the Epson - should be possible, but I've running out of patience with it after 4 hrs of trying.

It seems it can see the printer on the PC, and tried connecting to it using both IP and Lpc (??) and on printing keep getting "network host 192.168.1.5 (the pc's ip) is busy, will retry again in 5 seconds"

Seems nothing I can do can resolve this. The Mac connects to the internet find via wifi. Tried switching off the firewall on the pc to no avail.

Anyone offer up any ideas?

thanks

boxst

Have a read: Printer Sharing - Vista Printer Sharing With Mac OS X 10.5

Although I'm sure Marcus will be along in a second ...

Steve

Markus

Someone call?

I'm no expert when it comes to printing issues with printers connected to PC's but I do at least know it can sometimes be a pain in the ****.

Have a read of this and also this and see if they are of any help.

Eggswhysaid

thanks for the info, will follow the steps this eve and see if it works. Looks like its the Vista os that is disabling authentication (whereas XP doesnt)

ScoobyDoo555

Had the same issues with Vista. Didn't like the fact that the PC had to be on to share the printer, so I bought a Netgear print server (cost me £30-odd)

Got 2 printers attached to it - one for me, one for the kids

5 mins setup, compared to dealing with the travesty that is a Widows OS

Dan

Eggswhysaid

Followed the link and worked a treat

cheers!