Comments on: How to connect from Mac OS X Leopard to a shared printer via a Windows XP printserver

By: Omar

Omar — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:28:55 +0000

Thanks…a new user of Mac like me can use these sharing very well.

By: Fabiano

Fabiano — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:17:27 +0000

Thank you! I can confirm this works on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.8) printing via a Windows Server 2008 printing server. If the server is on a domain but your computer is not joined to it, you will need to type in DOMAIN\username in the username field in order for the authentication to work. Also if the authentication does not pop up when you try to print, open the Printer window and click on Resume job. That should force the Authentication window to appear.

By: Jenise

Jenise — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 12:50:47 +0000

I did this, but I’m having the same problem…The print queue on the mac and the pc both say that the print job is complete, but nothing prints. Any other suggestions?

By: Mark D. Rios

Mark D. Rios — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:49:47 +0000

Great thread however i have connected correctly (green light is on etc etc and able to bring up the print screen however when i press print, NOTHING PRINTS! not sure what i have done incorrectly but the green light is on etc etc. please help

connected to a shared Windows printer in an office with a server…

By: Liton

Liton — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 03:24:52 +0000

Thanks dear and it worked perfectly.

By: imeister

imeister — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 19:44:30 +0000

Only downside is that your password is then stored as plain text in the /private/etc/cups/printers.conf file to which anyone can browse if they know the path. 8-(

By: sniper200

sniper200 — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:13:36 +0000

Thanks guy!!

By: OBMJ

OBMJ — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:31:46 +0000

Thanks!
I was connecting to aBrother HL 2030 attached to the usb port on a Promise NS4600 NAS (Print Server) it is now printing documents after a lot of searching for a solution. The windows printing tab seems to be completely useless. Great one about the ‘Advanced’ icon.
This is similar to Tiger’s method of connecting to network printers.
Thanks again!!

By: JE

JE — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:56:16 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Christian Lupp

Christian Lupp — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:07:59 +0000

Great to hear that you managed it to connect those two worlds!