Windows 10: Cannot print from windows 11 Home to a shared printer on a windows 10 Home PC

Hi,I have a shared brother HL2140 printer connected through USB to a Windows 10 PC. I have two Windows 10 laptops and I'm able to print from these laptops using the shared brother printer.The problem is with my windows 11 laptop that cannot connect to that printer.From my windows 11 laptop, when I click on Network in File Explorer, I see the Windows 10 PC shared folders as well as the shared printer. I can access those folders and the files in them but when I try to connect to the printer I get the following error message:" windows couldn't connect to the printer. check the printer name and tr

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Windows 10 Home Won't Print to Remote Printer


I have three computers.
Machine 1: Windows 10 pro, has the USB Brother HL-5040 printer
Machine 2: Windows 10 pro, prints OK to the remote printer.
Machine 3: Windows 10 home, Used to print, but not anymore (THIS IS THE PROBLEM).
I’ve tried everything that I can think of, and would appreciate any suggestions.
I did these steps on Machine 3 that did not work.

1. Remove the printer device.
2. Add a Printer
3. The printer that I want isn’t listed
4. Select a shared printer by name
5. Browse
6. Select the displayed Machine 1.
7. Select the displayed Printer.
8. Next
9. Failure “Connect to Printer”.
10. Add a printer using a TCP/IP address or Hostname
11. Next
12. Set Hostname to Machine 2, and set port name.
13. Detecting TCP/IP Port
14. Additional Port information required.
15. Device Type – Standard, Brother Port Server
16. Next
17. Detecting the Driver Model
18. Install The Print Driver
19. Select Brother and Brother HL-5040
20. Next
21. Replace the Current Driver
22. Printer Name (setting it to HL-5040)
23. Next
24. Do not share this printer
25. Next
26. You’ve successfully added “HL-5040”
27. Finish

Printing on Machine 3 puts the document in the print queue, which reports error printing.
Printing from Machine 2 to the printer on Machine 1 works perfectly.
All three machines are in the same HomeGroup. Machine 3 can access the shared files from Machine 1.

 

Printing to a printer shared by a MAC on network

Hello,

It's possible that the recent update on your MacBook Pro may have changed some settings that are causing the issue. Here are some steps you can try to resolve the issue:



1. Check if the printers are shared on the network. On your MacBook Pro, go to System Preferences > Printers & Scanners, select the printer you want to share, and make sure the "Share this printer on the network" option is checked.



2. Check if the Windows 11 machine is able to access the shared printers. On your Windows 11 machine, go to Settings > Devices > Printers & scanners, click on "Add a printer or scanner", and see if the shared printers are listed. If they are, select them and try printing a test page.



3. If the above steps don't work, try resetting the printing system on your MacBook Pro. To do this, go to System Preferences > Printers & Scanners, right-click on the printer list, and select "Reset printing system". This will remove all printers from your MacBook Pro and reset the printing system to its default settings. You will need to add the printers again and try printing from your Windows 11 machine.



If none of these steps work, you may need to contact Apple support for further assistance.

Hope this helps!

Best regards
Zunhui

 

Windows 11 cannot print to shared printers

Hello,

I have a Windows Server 2016, which is acting as a Domain and Print server. I have HP, Canon and Lexmark printers that are shared from this server to the rest of the computers. Most of the printers are using PCL6 V3 and V4 type drivers. Recently I've started upgrading my computers to Windows 11, but I have an issue with the shared printers.

When I try to print to a shared printer, for example from Excel, Excel stops responding and crashes. If I try to print from Notepad, Notepad crashes when I press File->Print and fails to load the printer selection screen. If I install the printers directly, using the printer's IP address I don't have such issues. This happens only to all of the Windows 11 computers and not the other Windows 10 machines. Every program that tries to print to a shared printer just crashes.