Comments on: How-to: print from Snow Leopard to a Vista-attached printer

By: Zeke

Zeke — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:13:24 +0000

If the Windows print queue name has spaces, replace the spaces with %20. Thus smb://myname:mypassword@192.168.2.10/Big printer would need to be smb://myname:mypassword@192.168.2.10/Big%20printer

By: D H

D H — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 02:07:35 +0000

Worked like a champ! I am new to Macs but very proficient with a PC. I did notice that I had to take out any spaces in my Shared name for the printer. After that I rebooted the PC and was able to connect right up to my Brother DCP-8020 from the MAC. Thank you!

By: Mick Hornbach

Mick Hornbach — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:49:42 +0000

This is great!

The only thing I had to change was the SMB URL line. Instead of adding my PC name I just used the IP without the workgroup name! Like this:
smb://myname:mypassword@192.168.2.10/ML-2510

THANKS!

By: Brent

Brent — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:01:15 +0000

Thank you! This worked for me as well and I could not get anything else to work! I had some trouble at first with not getting the names exactly correct, but after those corrections, it worked perfectly!

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:21:22 +0000

I’ve worked on this for hours. The apple care customer service line didn’t have a clue. This worked beautifully! Thanks!!!!

By: James

James — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 15:08:36 +0000

Bless you, my son. I was just about ready to dump Snow Leopard just so I could print. It would be nice if Apple had this simple solution somewhere on their site or in the documentation. It’s not like I have hours of time to surf for solutions to everyday tasks.

I love a fix that takes all of 20 seconds. Good job!

By: njh

njh — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:07:48 +0000

Scott, mine says ‘remote downlevel document’ also. That is normal behaviour. The only thing I can think of is that your printer is not compatible with the default postscript driver. Clearly the document is getting to the PC and into the queue, which suggests there isn’t a login/security problem.

Have you tried changing the printer driver on the Mac?

By: Scott Ficek

Scott Ficek — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:07:27 +0000

Also, one more thought.

When I send a print job from another Windows machine, the printer Queue has the name of the document I sent. When it is sent from the Apple, it says the document name is “Remote Downlevel Document”. What does yours say?

By: Scott Ficek

Scott Ficek — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:03:13 +0000

Very close, but I am watching the Queue on the Windows (XP in my case) machine. The job gets there, but then sits for 1 minute and disappears with no printer action.

Despite putting in what I think is my username and password for the XP system, the user still says Guest in the Windows XP Printer Queue. What does yours say?

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:14:29 +0000

You absolute god, I have been trying (on and off) to get wireless network printing from the Macbook to a Vista box for about a year and a half. Each time I tried before it would fail, time and time again but this time, SUCCESS!!

I did all the steps, hit “print a test page”, ran downstairs and nothing happened, but hold on, there is an orange light flashing; no paper! So I refilled and what popped out, the test page =) I tried a proper document as I couldn’t quite believe it, it had worked again.

Thanks so much, this will make things much easier, plus it saved me the £50 on a print server that I have contemplated for far too long.