Aqua-Soft ForumsI have a printer hooked up to my desktop computer, and that printer is on a network. My desktop is running Vista Home Premium, and now I wanna print directly from my laptop running Leopard onto this printer... How can I do that? How can I connect my computer with the printer?
Adding a networked printer
can you clarify something: is the printer hooked up to the desktop directly (LPT1, USB, etc) or through a network switch?
this may help you:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?pa....5/en/8671.html
He said it was hooked up to his desktop.
First, make sure the printer is shared in windows. Go to your Printers window in control panel. Right Click, Properties. In the Sharing Pane, set it to what you want to share the printer as...I recommend using the Printer's model.
Then, on your Mac, browse to your Windows share via SMB. Command + K will bring you to this window. Double click on the printer. It will/should bring you to the Printers preference pane in System Preferences...
That's as far as I can take you :slant:...
and that printer is on a network.
then what does this part mean? it's either hooked up locally or not locally. he/she has presented it as being both....
It's connected to my desktop via USB...
That means it is connected locally through your computer. See my first post.....it should get you far enough....