Windows 10: Connecting a new windows 11 laptop to an existing printer shared by a windows 10 pc fails.

New Windows 11 laptop won't connect to printer shared by a win10 machine - it sees the printer, and lets me select it, but when I click OK it says "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Network name is no longer available" - but it is available and accessible by the other computers.

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Printer sharing XP PC to Win. 10 Laptop...

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

I understand that you would like to connect the printer to Windows 10 running machine.

I suggest you to follow the below steps and check if it helps.

• Log in to your Windows 10 computer with an administrator account.
• Connect the printer to the PC.
• Click on the Start button from the desktop.
• From the Start menu, click Settings.
• From the SETTINGS window, click Devices.
• Once the DEVICES window opens up, from the left pane, select the Printers & scanners category.
• From the right pane, under the Add printers & scanners section, click Add a printer or scanner.
• Wait until Windows searches for the connected printer.
  
  Note: If Windows finds the printer, you can click its name and can follow the on-screen instructions to complete the installation process. If Windows fails to detect the printer, you can continue to next step.
• If Windows is unable to detect the connected printer, please click the
  The printer that I want isn’t listed link.
• From the Find a printer with other options window, click to select the Add a local printer or network printer with manual settings radio button.
• Click Next to continue.
• From the Choose a printer port window, leave the default options selected and click
  Next.
  
  Note: If you are an advanced user, you can also choose a different option from the
  Use an existing port drop-down list, or you can create your own port by selecting the
  Create a new port radio button and specifying your custom port in the enabled field before clicking
  Next.
• From the Install the printer driver window, from the list of printer manufacturers in the left section, click to select the one to which the connected printer belongs.
• From the right pane, locate and click to select the specific model of the printer that is connected to the PC.
  
  Note: At this point, you can also click the Have Disk button and browse and locate the driver for the connected printer if you have downloaded it manually from its official website.
• Click Next and proceed to the next step.
• From the Printer Sharing window, make sure that the Share this printer so that others on the network can find and use it radio button is selected.
  
  Note: If you do not want to share the printer with the network users, you can select the Do not share this printer radio button and jump to step 20.
• In the Share name field, type a short share name for the printer.
  
  Note: The name you specify here will be displayed to the remote users when they search for this printer over the network.
• Optionally you can populate the Location and Comment fields with your preferred information.
• Click Next to continue.
• On the final page of the wizard, click the Print a test page button to check the connectivity and proper functioning of the printer. (Optional)
• Click Finish to complete the process.

Hope the information helps. Let us know if you need further assistance. We will be happy to help.

Thank you

 

Windows 10 Tweaks

Pressing “Windows+Pause Break” (it’s up there next to scroll lock) opens the “System” Window.

Windows 10: In the new version of Windows, Explorer has a section called Quick Access. This includes your frequent folders and recent files. Explorer defaults to opening this page when you open a new window. If you’d rather open the usual This PC, with links to your drives and library folders, follow these steps:

• Open a new Explorer window.
• Click View in the ribbon.
• Click Options.
• Under General, next to “Open File Explorer to:” choose “This PC.”
• Click OK

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Cannot connect to shared printer Error code: 0000001b

Hello!

Yesterday our printer failed, so we replaced it with a new one. I shared it so other colleagues can print. When I tried to connect to the shared printer wither from Devices & Printers or from Network, I got the error code 0000001b. All computers are running Windows 10 v21H2, network is set to Private, sharing is enabled. I read elsewhere that I should uninstall some recent Windows updates. I found no matching update in the list. Also elsewhere suggested to enable SMB 1.0, didn't work. Any other solution?

Thank you in advance.