Basic MAC 101 - How to use a windows shared printer

[MichaelVictor]

I'm clueless on MAC's. My daughter just got an MACBook. OS - Snow Leopard. We have a printer shared off a Windows Vista Box. Printer share name - \\Vistabomb\hpcolor.

Thanks

 

[SYQUEST]

You might try using BONJOUR which is a program for printers. I don't know if it works on Vista, but you can try it. Look here: apple.com/support/downloads/bonjourforwindows.html

....JIM....

 

[fisheromacse]

here are some links to try...

Apple instructions for manually adding a SMB windows shared printer:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3049

Another howto:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070916131935539

A decent amount of info, but spread over too many pages:

http://macs.about.com/od/macwindows/ss/printsharevista.htm

More howto setup filesharing between Windows and OSX, but still valuable infomation that sortof applies:

http://www.applesource.com.au/how-t...Vista-workgroup/0,2000451082,339287574,00.htm

 

[warpdrve]

I went thru a similar problem and, after several messages on a thread in Tek-tips, found a solution.

Follow this thread:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1414337

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