Windows 10: Windows 11 System Can't Connect to Shared Printer on Windows 7

My wife had a Windows 11 notebook system that was working perfectly with a shared Brother laser printer on a Windows 7 system; the notebook was damaged so I'm replacing it with a new Windows 11 notebook. I set everything up on the new notebook; it can access the hard drives and data on the Windows 7 system, but when I try to connect to the shared printer, I add it manually \\win7system\Brother and a window appears saying "Connecting to Brother on win7system" that will sit there for hours. It never actually connects.So, I know the Windows 7 system is set up properly to share its printer wit

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Can't connect to network printer on Windows 7

Hi,

I have a big HP A3 printer setup on my USR router, and its been working great on XP and Vista, I just go to add printer, add network printer, add by name, and paste in the following address.

http://192.168.2.1:1631/printers/My_Printer

I have just gone to do this on Windows 7 and it says it cannot connect.

Even the router is reporting it as connected and ready *Confused

 

Can't share printer—getting error message

Yeah, I have windows firewall disabled, and I don't use any other firewall... mostly to prevent stupid issues like this.

None taken... and yeah, I do.

 

Office Printer & Windows 7

Most of the computers in my offices at work have Windows XP on them at the moment. I'm slowly converting them over to Windows 7 but have hit a bit of a roadblock. We have this big printer/scanner/copier in the front that is connected to the office network, so for example you can scan a bunch of documents and have the PDFs sent to a particular computer. I have a Windows 7 computer all set up, but the PDF is not reaching the computer after it scans.

I imagine there is something I'm doing wrong with the sharing process on the Windows 7 computer. Enabling sharing is pretty easy on XP, I thought I had everything set up on Windows 7 for sharing but apparently not. Any thoughts on what I can check to get this working?