Access Windows Xp Printer From Windows 10
Recently, one of my customers has found that after installation of the upgrade from Windows eight.1 to Windows 10, the network printer connected to this figurer stopped printing documents from other computers running Windows XP. (In spite the end of support for Windows XP, it nonetheless widely used in SOHO.)
If on a figurer running Windows XP you double-click the network printer installed on a Windows ten PC (workgroup without a domain), the following error appears:
Operation could not be completed. Access is denied.
When trying to connect a network printer in XP through the
Connect
pick of the printer context card, it is prompted to specify the name and password of a user with privileges on the remote Windows 10 calculator .
Later you enter user name and password (even of the local administrator account in Windows 10), this mistake appears:
The credentials supplied are non sufficient to admission this printer. Do you desire to specify new credentials?
And then you specify the password and the same repeats over again and again… The near interesting thing is that y’all tin open any files on a network share in Windows 10 from the XP customer without whatever troubles (so the trouble is not in the
lack of support of SMB 1.0). The problem appears only with network printers. If a shared printer in the same configuration is continued to Windows eight.1, y’all can print anything hands.
What nosotros tried to practice:
In the Network and Sharing Eye in Windows 10 we disabled entering password to admission a PC running Windows 10 from the network (Turn off password protected sharing), switch to
Enable File Sharing for Devices That Use 40- or 56-Bit Encryption
manner, tried to create the same local users in both systems. Nothing helped.
Finally, to connect to a shared printer in Windows 10 from a reckoner running Windows XP, we had to use an quondam workaround and connect the printer via a local port.
- On a computer running Windows XP, open up
Control Panel-> Printers and Faxes
and start Add Printer Wizard (Add printer)
- Then select
Local printer fastened to this computer
-> Create a new port
->
Local Port
- As a port name, specify the UNC address of the printer like this:
\\Win10-PC1\SharedPrinterName
(in our example information technology is \\192.168.1.22\HPLaserJet)
- Select or install the suitable printer driver.
Cease the installation, restart
both
computers and try to impress a document. Information technology should be printed successfully!
Note. I take found a quite interesting fact: a user has to be logged in Windows 10, otherwise the port won’t be available.
29 comments
Orb
December 3, 2016 – 3:38 pm
I am doing all of the steps, even so when I’m specifying the port proper name (\\192.168.1.76\Epson) I go a message “Access is denied”.
If I spell something incorrectly or use the Win ten computer’s domain name instead of IP, I go “The network path was not found”. Meaning, in this example the printer was found. How do I gear up this?
admin
Dec vii, 2016 – 6:35 am
Check NTFS permissions on the Windows 10 spool folder (default location c:\Windows\System32\Spool\Printers). Effort to add Read/Write permissions for the built in group ‘Anybody’
NABEEL NASIR
July 17, 2017 – 1:02 pm
I AM DOING THE Same PROCEDUR But ERROR Come.
‘UNABLE TO INSTALL PRINTER.THE PRINTER PROCESSOR DOES Not Exist’
Tuzo
February 22, 2018 – 4:25 am
Thank you! This is the respond to this irritating problem.
Computer Friend
March 19, 2018 – 3:33 pm
I found this to be the answer to my problem of getting my Windows XP laptop to add together the shared USB printer on a Windows 10 computer. After adding the printer every bit a local printer and specifying information technology’due south accost on the network, I am now able to impress just fine. Thank you and so much!
Melissa
Apr 30, 2018 – 8:13 am
Hi,
I followed these steps with me before, but later an update on Win 10 yesterday, i couldnt print anything and when im nigh to create a new local port this error show: logon failure: unknown user proper noun or password. Can you help please
admin
May 4, 2018 – 11:19 am
Francisco Javier Arias Simarro
May 26, 2018 – 8:32 pm
The Add Printer Wizard attempts to connect … information technology will NOT connect. Then before doing the magician, just admission the Windows 10 machine from your XP client: Open File explorer and write the server UNC in the direction bar: \\MyWin10HostWithPrinterShare (I honey typing things, you lot may navigate through Network…)
Matt
October five, 2018 – 7:42 am
Thanks so much…. Spent my entire morning trying to effigy out why my 2003 server couldn’t see the printer…. Yous saved my morning! 🙂
Gernot Leusch
December x, 2018 – 5:52 pm
Give thanks you very much for your detailed instruction! And so I was able to use my Canon printer at my Windows 10 computer from my Windows XP/Windows 2003 computer. Additionally your description worked very well using my HP printer at the Windows XP/Windows 2003 computer from the Windows 10 computer. Missing local drivers could be downloaded during the procedure from Microsoft Update.
FARIDA RATLAMWALA
January 5, 2019 – xi:49 am
I AM DOING THE Aforementioned PROCEDUR BUT ERROR COME.
‘UNABLE TO INSTALL PRINTER.THE PRINTER PROCESSOR DOES NOT Be’
Yasomal
February 26, 2019 – 7:30 am
THIS WORKED FOR ME when connecting network printer on a Windows 10 desktop to Windows XP SP3 desktop.
So this tutorial saved my time and effort a lot. Thank y’all then much. Wish you all the best!
Rick Winter
July 20, 2019 – 8:38 pm
Outstanding! Thanks much.
Andrej Pirman
September 24, 2019 – 6:eleven am
Excellent! Thanks very much for this good old tip! We had to alter mainboard on quondam XP machine, which is the programming controller for laser cut machine, and after repair the above mentioned symptoms showed up. But your instructions…works similar a charm now 🙂
Abu fathiya
October xi, 2019 – 3:44 am
Very good and thanks for the assist
nik
November 24, 2019 – 10:50 pm
Actually worked!!! Though I yet had to insert my Windows XP Installation CD at the terminate for some reason.
Ron S.
Dec 11, 2019 – 8:02 pm
This is one of the best help manufactures for XP to 10 printing there is, worked like a champ, fifty-fifty with having to use a net employ LPT1 command for an old DOS program. Thank you for posting!!
GEORGE T
January 28, 2020 – one:26 pm
Amazing!!!!! That Worked!!!!! Thank you very much for your assist.
Aidyn
Feb 4, 2020 – 10:36 am
Solved. Thank you
fuzz
April 29, 2020 – 3:13 am
information technology works. cheers million times.
Sumit Khatri
June 18, 2020 – 5:37 am
Cheers Brother u wouldn’t believe i researched a lot well-nigh this problem in internet but nothing found aid total but this method works in one shot thanks a lot buddy you saved my repotation in my organisation .
Ellouze
Dec 3, 2020 – eight:01 am
Je vous remercie
Vous me sauvez la vie
Debdeep Nandy
January 21, 2021 – 2:04 pm
The sometime Workaround to install the printer by using UNC address as Local port installs the printer. Simply when trying to print , it says “Printing Error” and a long queue continuously build up in the print server machine, until I cancel the print chore from client machine. Please help what to do.
J Garrett
February 3, 2021 – 12:05 am
A working solution to a trouble which ought not to be! Just one point which could have been mentioned. I assume the server ip4 address should be static and not dynamically allocated, otherwise addresses may exist reallocated differently past the router? Unfortunately, not all routers provide this option and it may exist necessary to amend the ip accost from fourth dimension to time on the XP automobile. Is there a work-around for this!
PAblo
Apr 15, 2021 – 6:18 pm
Hello. Any solution here? Ir seems that with the 20h2 is not working anymore.
leila
May 5, 2021 – 4:54 am
hello installed printer but when i ship impress document faux printed plz assistance me..
Waly
May xviii, 2021 – 12:27 pm
succesfully with windows2000 and XP, thanks for sharing!
tyrone folder
October 15, 2021 – 12:fourteen pm
I actually have a solution to the consequence .. you need to add windows credentials to the manager .. you can launch it past win key+R to launch run and paste this in > rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr < that launches windows credential manager in xp .. I created a user chosen printer with ambassador rights and remote desktop user in user management on the windows ten auto making sure
the printer is shared. I went to the security tab on the printers properties and added the printer user account and gave it full permission. I and so gave the pc a static ip address. And so case of the printer i was working with in question. i gave it share name samsung scx-3400 .. on the XP machine in credential managing director i added 3 windows credentials .. to the credential manager on the xp motorcar. I too installed SMb1 complete on both xp and windows 10 machines. I as well dsiabled windows ten credentials in network connexion sharing center.. i also followed some info i found on this page which basically allows or restricts anonymous connections in windows 10 which causes network issues with file sharing.
the iii credentials i added to the XP machines windows credentials were the following except i got to keep privacy .. change your hostnames and ip my user business relationship i created was printer so change printer to your user account etc
\\hostname hostname\printer and the password
\\ip address of host\samsung scx-3400 hostname\printer and the password
\\hostname\samsung scx-3400 hostname\printer and the countersign
Kris
May 17, 2022 – iii:01 pm
Give thanks Y’all Very Much