Windows 10: HP printer Scan to Network Folder will NOT work unless my Win 10 PC has password for logon

My new home printer is an HP OfficeJet Pro 9015 supposedly in the line of succession to my old HP OJP 8500, which started to leak ink and is ready for the printer graveyard.

The HP OJP 9015 has a “Scan to Network Folder” feature which sets a “button” on the printer’s tiny screen to scan what’s in the feeder or on the glass and send a pdf copy to a designated folder on my home network – specifically to a target folder on my home Win 10 Pro 64-bit PC version 1909.


Note that the printer is initiating and pushing the scanned pdf to my PC on the network – the PC is not ordering and pulling the scan.

The target folder is fully Shared with Read-Write privileges to “Everyone” and “Network”, and with Security giving Everyone and Network Full Control. On my PC, Password-Protected Sharing is Off. <-- Please re-read this before continuing

However, the printer will not accept the designation of this network folder as a valid target unless I add a logon password to my Win 10 PC and add that password to the setting on the printer. The printer setup for this target folder will not accept a no-logon-password PC as the home of the target.

I don’t want a logon password on my home PC, and I really have tried a lot of stuff to try to get around this.


This is apparently a big problem with Win 10. For example, see this closed thread on these forums: < THIS LINK >


How can this be fixed?


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HP printer wants PC have logon password, or no Scan to Network Folder

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My new home printer is a new HP OfficeJet Pro 9015, supposedly in the line of succession to my 11-year old HP OJP 8500, which started to leak ink and is soon for the printer graveyard.

I have one annoying problem with the 9015. It has a “Scan to Network Folder” feature which sets a “button” on the printer’s tiny screen to scan what’s in the feeder or on the glass and send a pdf copy to a designated folder on my home network – specifically to a target folder on my home Win 10 Pro 64-bit PC (version 1909). Note that the printer is initiating and pushing the scanned pdf to my PC on the network – the PC is not ordering and pulling the scan.

The target folder is fully Shared with Read-Write privileges to “Everyone” and “Network”, and with Security giving Everyone and Network Full Control.

► However, the HP OJP 9015 printer will not accept the designation of this network folder as a valid target unless I add a logon password to my Win 10 PC and add that password to the setting on the printer. The printer setup for this target folder will not accept a no-logon-password PC as the home of the target. On my PC, Password-Protected Sharing is Off – the printer is very stubborn about this..

I don’t want a logon password on my home PC, and I really have tried a lot of stuff to try to get around this. Could this conceivably be a Firewall issue? Or anything else?

I’ve never added anything to my Firewall and I’m not sure how to do that.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

 

HP printer wants PC have logon password, or no Scan to Network Folder

Jacee - Interesting info, but I don't think my HP 9015 has any password currently - it is connected to my router and LAN by ethernet cable; its WiFi is off.
From my PC's browser, I can access the printer's embedded web server (EWS) just by going to its IT address, which I set (static) at 192.168.1.246. I needed to approve a self-generated certificate the first time, but nothing since then.

I still have the problem that the HP's Scan to Network Folder will not work unless my PC has a logon password, which it has never had.

Please let me have your further thoughts.

Thanks.

 

HP printer wants PC have logon password, or no Scan to Network Folder

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