sharing a USB printer in SOHO environment [migrated]
- by Registered User
Here is a situation I am facing,
there is USB printer which works only on a Windows XP machine,
there are other devices in LAN it is a Small Office Home Office environment.
How can this USB printer attached to Windows XP machine be shared so that other laptops or users in Network who have Windows 7 or Linux on their laptops can use this printer.
The printer model number is Canon Laser Shot LBP-1210
http://www.canon-europe.com/For_Home/Product_Finder/Printers/Laser/LaserShot_LBP1210/index.asp
a print server is not available to me I need to make it work in this situation only.What can I do?
the clients are unable to connect to this.It is not a network or TCP/IP printer
If a from Windows 7 machine some one wants to use this printer so that he can take a print he gets an error while adding the printer to his machine which is a Windows 7 machine (where as the printer is USB printer on Windows XP machine)
Start--->Devices and Printers---> Add Printer---> Find Printer by name or IP address--->Selected a shared printer by name-->\\PC-Name-printer3
and select browse it gives a message Windows can not find a driver for Canon LASER SHOT LBP-1210 on the network what does this mean do I need to install some kind of software at client machine or on the machine where printer is present?