Windows 10: 0x0000011b

A Windows 10 that has a printer connected via USB at the same time the printer is shared on the network. And in another windows 10 can't connect to that printer, I tried to uninstall all updates from the computer where the printer is connected unfortunately it doesn't work anymore. Any method to remove this error.

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Possible printer issue with KB5005565

Update:

I'd been having problems with computers accessing our printer, which is USB-connected to my home computer. All computers had been able to print to it at one time, and then stopped "somewhere" along the line - we don't print a lot.

The impetus for my visiting this thread was that we got our first Windows 11 computer, and all the setup and configuration went fine, but I got 0x0000011b when trying to connect to the printer. I'd been able to "see" my computer, and the connected printer from the Win11 machine network view, but got the error when trying to connect.

I tried to use @ish4d0w's guidance:

But when the client Win11 machine asked for credentials for the printer-hosting computer, it wouldn't accept the correct credentials that I entered (why not? - should just be the username and password used to log into that host computer, right?).

I then tried the steps in Fix: Operation failed with error 0x0000011B (Windows cannot connect to the printer)

But there were some curves that way too:

1. The RpcAuthnLevelPrivacyEnabled registry key already existed on the host computer, and with a correct value of 0
2. KB5007186, which is supposed to be uninstalled, didn't exist on either the client (Win11) or host (Win10) computer - there was nothing to uninstall

So in trying to figure out what to do next, I took a poke at adding the printer, and voila, it worked. Recognized, installed, driver found and installed on the Win11 machine, and it printed fine.

So I'm happy I have it working, and all I can think is that the restarting the print spooler on the host machine - the only material change I made to anything - was what got it working.

 

Printer Sharing feature is Broken in Windows 10 latest version

Hello,

I am screaming inside now, Microsoft seems to have broken, or to be fair, let's just say heavily altered (and not in the good way) the well-known printer sharing feature that has been part of Windows for... since Windows 98 I guess? And I'm unable to make it work. Please help me!

This is a SHARING issue , a problem with Windows networking, and not a printer-specific issue. I can't share ANY printers at all, if I am using Windows 10 21H2, or any recent version of Windows 10.

If I use legacy versions of Windows, such as Windows 7, or even early Windows 10 from 2015, then it works fine using the same steps. It is crazy.

What I did:
- Set network type to home/private.
- Enabled file and printer sharing.
- Turned off password protected sharing.
- Enabled guest any "ANONYMOUS LOGON" permissions for the printer to be shared.
- Shared the printer using the system dialogue.
- Installed additional drivers using the share prompt as we have a legacy Win7 computer too, that is running x86. (The main system is Windows 10 21H2 x64 of course, now hosting drivers x64 AND x86 for this printer)
- Checked the network menu in explorer on the client computer (One running Windows 10 21H1 x64 and other running Windows 7 x86). They can both see the server (Windows 10 21H2 x64) and the printer share. But unable to connect it, or add it as an actual printer.

Error is: unable to connect to the printer,
with specific error code 0x0000011b

I looked up this code and it seems others have seen it too:
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I tried these steps but they don't work. And I can't uninstall that update, its not in the list. Also that would make me vulnerable to run old versions of Windows 10.

What should I do? I struggle to digest that in the latest version of Windows 10, printer sharing is just, well, broken.

 

Printer Sharing feature is Broken in Windows 10 latest version

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