Make a note of the Win7 connection XP shared printer

Near the end of the year, it is time to write a summary report for one year, and there are various reports to print!

Of course, during this period of time, the daily work of the network management mulberry is to fight with the printer, the printing volume is increased, and the printer monarch strikes if he does not agree...

Next is a variety of printer maintenance, which does not encounter a Win7 can not connect to the shared printer situation:

Location: Finance Office

Requirements analysis: financial one-pin printer needs to connect two accounts, a Win7 and an XP, printer through USB connection in XP on this computer! (shared printer)

Specific operation:

1. Set XP to a fixed IP, access the printer directly through IP, and check the Allow "File and Printer Sharing" exception on the firewall.

2. The printer is set to share

3. Enter shared IP on Win7, access shared printer, display normal, double-click to connect printer to install driver, the problem comes, the driver is dead or not installed, and the driver will report error when installed!

4. Switch installation mode, manually add printer on Win, install through IP, or report error as soon as you install driver!

5, test under Win10 installation of this printer is also not installed, a driver installed on the error, suspected that there is a problem with the driver, re-download the driver from the official website, the result is still the same.

6. I haven't encountered this phenomenon before, and it may be rare for me. I clicked on the webpage to search for it conveniently. Some netizens said that it would be installed through LocalPort!

7. With a try attitude, add a local printer in Win7, then select to create a new port, drop down and select "LocalPort", enter the IP address and shared name of the shared printer in the pop-up dialog box, install the driver, all operations in one go. Print test page, OK No problem

End....

The above is a bunch of nonsense, in fact, it is a simple printer sharing, and it is to use the LocalPort port to complete the addition of printers, here is the case of printers connected to XP sharing.

Although XP machines have long been eliminated, but not uncommon companies or single people are still using XP system, recorded here, can be regarded as to their own accumulated a small experience bar! This way in Win10 beta can also connect XP shared printers!