Windows 10: Win10 computer suddenly unable to access printer on home wifi

A computer that, for as long as we've had it - 2-3 years I think - has printed fine on our shared home printer, now cannot.

The computer in question is a Windows 10 computer.

The printer is Canon iP4800, that is USB connected to a Windows 7 computer, but accessed through our home wifi for printing, by every computer in the house.

Printing always worked from the computer in question, but just without warning stopped. Yesterday was the first time I noticed it, but stuff has been printed from it in the past 30 days.

If I turn the printer off and try to print to it from that computer, I get an error message. So the computer "knows" if the printer is available or not.

I have deleted the printer and re-added it. This process "finds" the computer successfully - whether by browsing to it, or by typing in the exact name of the computer, and then the online statuses proceed as expected for adding the printer.

From the Win10 computer, when I view the network, I can "see" the Win7 computer to which the printer is connected. And I can then open the folders on that computer that are shared.

So the network works fine, the printer works fine, the Win10 computer can "find" the printer, and "see" the other computer to which it's connected.

But I can't print from that Win10 computer now, even though I previously could.

What's going wrong?

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homegroup win10 not recognize printer & scanner on win7 computer

Thank you so much for the quick response to my problem.

my devices I am trying to access on the win7 computer are:

Printer: Stylus Photo R200

Scanner: Perfection 4180

I had these originally on my computer B4 win10 install. After the install they did not work. That is why I connected to my other win7 computer. The win7 is within my Homegroup and when I access thru win10 I get access to docs, picts, videos, etc but not
the above devices. Reversing this, accessing my win10 computer from the win7, I get the icon my Epson Workforce 310 printer which I set up on the win7 computer for printing as well as the above devices.

Went to Epson website on the win7 comp & found the recommended driver for win7. Did the same on the win10 comp to find drivers for win10. (Did not update these drivers yet.) Apparently they have 2 different drivers dependent on WIN version. Both drivers
are up to date.

Is it possible the drivers are not compatible and this accounts for these devices not showing up on the win10 machine? Don't know if win10 driver will work on win7. I may try to set these up on win10 machine. If work can upgrade win7 to win10.

I tried steps 1 & 2. Step 3, I know I have devices set to show on the network.

Any other suggestions/comments??

 

Laptops cannot access desktops via WIFI


I have 3 desktops (all on Windows 10 1803) connected on my LAN. After following this forum for some times and did all the steps as suggested by forum member, access denied, all my desktops are able to view and access one another. I have a printer connected to PC1, and managed to connect all the other 2 PCs to have the shared printer.

I also have 2 more laptops (both Asus with the same Windows 10 1803) connected via WIFI. Performed all the same steps as per the desktops, but I was not able to access PC1. I was able to view all the 3 desktops from the file explorer, but I just can't access all the desktops. However, I was able to access the Asus laptops from desktop PC1.

Anyone able to assist on this matter? Any assistance is highly appreciated.

 

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