Windows 10: I have a Win 7 laptop tha I use as a print server. The power glitched and the MS password...

I have a Win 7 laptop that I use as a print server. The power glitched and the MS password is not working. How can I reset password?

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Print server issue

Ok, that installed the printer on the Windows 10 device but it still will not connect to the Windows 7 device (print server) to print. It asks me if I want to share this printer with other devices but that will not work because I remove the Windows 10 laptop
and leave sometimes and the Windows 7 desktop needs to be the server so they can still print while the Windows 10 laptop is not present.

 

Win 10 laptop cannot print to Win 7 Desktop shared printer

Hi,

I have a HP Laserjet 1018 shared printer in a Win 7 SPK 1 ( Ver 6.1.7601) desktop machine and a Win 10 Home 64 Bit (Ver 10.0.17134.407) laptop that is connected to my home network via wireless. I am trying to send print jobs from the laptop to the desktop
but have received the following errors after which I remove and attempt to establish the connection back to the desktop.

The shared Win 7 printer properties on the desktop is configured as "Share this printer" and "Render print jobs on client computers" with check marks on both in the "Sharing" tab.

I have attempted to connect the wireless Win 10 notebook with the following "Add Printer" options: "Select a shared printer by name" (\\computernane\printername), Add a printer using a TCP/IP address or hostname (used the IP address) and with a Add a local
printer or network printer with manual settings. All typically see the printer, but when a print job is sent from the wireless laptop to the desktop printer (desktop is connected via ethernet and the shared printer via USB to the desktop).

For this last test I added the printer again (after removing the previous attempts) as "Select a shared printer by name". The printer installs correctly (You've successfully added ....). I leave it with the check mark for "Set as default printer" and click
"Finish".

When I go back to the printer settings and attempt to send the print test page, I get a "You do not have permission to modify the settings for this printer. If you need to change the settings, contact your system administrator". Then another screen error
pop-up with an "Operation could not be completed (error 0x000006ba). The server print spooler service is not running. Please restart the spooler on the server or restart the server machine".

If I stop and restart the Win 7 Print Spooler Service on the desktop, I only get the first previously mentioned error ("You do not have permission to modify the settings for this printer. If you need to change the settings, contact your system administrator")
but not the second.

The Win 10 laptop can ping the desktop, and as I mentioned, the printer driver does install in win 10 which means that it does communicate with the Win 7 desktop.

Can you please advise on what can be done (what can I check) to make the Win 7 shared printer work with the wireless Win 10 laptop ?

Thank you for your help.

Art T.

 

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