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Guest
Hi-
I recently got a new printer and am unable to get it working as well as the
old one. In particular I cannot print from another computer using network
printing.
I have an Epson CX6600 "All In One". I am able to install the printer ok on
the remote machine using browse for printers (though it comes up with a
different name from the "Share As" name that was specified when I enabled
print sharing on the other side: "Epson Stylus CX6600 Series on <machine
name>" rather than EPSONSty).
When I do print test page (or trying to print from Wordpad as the
Troubleshooter suggests), the print job just sits in the queue and never
comes out). I can cancel it and go back to the other machine (which the
printer is local to) and do the same thing just fine from there after
cancelling the first job (I've done it from either machine and it is visible
on either machine when you open the printer).
The only difference that I can observe when I print locally is that Owner is
my user name on that machine, but shows up as Guest when printing over the
network.
I even tried enabling the guest account on the printer local machine to see
if Guest could print from there and I found that it could.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers a few times, I've tried
getting the latest drivers from the EPSON website...and I'm stymied...
Any suggestions?
Both machines are Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. I disabled
Security on both of them as otherwise the networking didn't seem to work.
I'm behind a firewall, so am not too worried about the security right now,
though in time might want to figure out how to have security enabled and
still allow file sharing.
File sharing, by the way, works just fine between the two machines, I'm
using Workgroup networking.
Thanks
-Paul Ries
I recently got a new printer and am unable to get it working as well as the
old one. In particular I cannot print from another computer using network
printing.
I have an Epson CX6600 "All In One". I am able to install the printer ok on
the remote machine using browse for printers (though it comes up with a
different name from the "Share As" name that was specified when I enabled
print sharing on the other side: "Epson Stylus CX6600 Series on <machine
name>" rather than EPSONSty).
When I do print test page (or trying to print from Wordpad as the
Troubleshooter suggests), the print job just sits in the queue and never
comes out). I can cancel it and go back to the other machine (which the
printer is local to) and do the same thing just fine from there after
cancelling the first job (I've done it from either machine and it is visible
on either machine when you open the printer).
The only difference that I can observe when I print locally is that Owner is
my user name on that machine, but shows up as Guest when printing over the
network.
I even tried enabling the guest account on the printer local machine to see
if Guest could print from there and I found that it could.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers a few times, I've tried
getting the latest drivers from the EPSON website...and I'm stymied...
Any suggestions?
Both machines are Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2. I disabled
Security on both of them as otherwise the networking didn't seem to work.
I'm behind a firewall, so am not too worried about the security right now,
though in time might want to figure out how to have security enabled and
still allow file sharing.
File sharing, by the way, works just fine between the two machines, I'm
using Workgroup networking.
Thanks
-Paul Ries