Cannot Connect to Shared Printer Windows 10 From Windows 7

In this article, we provide solutions to common Windows errors (0x0000011b
and
0x00000002) that can occur when connecting a shared network printer from a remote computer (impress server). Find the error that appears when connecting a printer in the list below and proceed to the gear up.

0x00000002
– Printer Connectivity Error

Error
0x00000002
can occur when trying to connect a shared network printer (from the Print Server or the local TCP/IP port) in both Windows 10 and Windows 7. After y’all have opened the list of shared printers on a remote calculator (via UNC path
\\computername), and clicked the
Connect
push button, an mistake appears

The error 0x00000002 ways that the driver of this printer installed on the computer is corrupted. First of all, you should endeavor to remove this driver from the driver store (similar in the case of
mistake 0x00000057).

Run this command:

printui.exe /s /t2

In the list of installed drivers, find the printer driver you want to reinstall and remove it by clicking
Remove
and select the
Remove driver and driver parcel
option.

Restart the spooler (net cease spooler & cyberspace beginning spooler) and effort to connect your printer again.

It is likely that the commuter will be installed and the printer will connect successfully.

Otherwise, attempt the following:

1. Remove this registry cardinal:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Director\PendingFileRenameOperations;
2. If there are any subfolders with the names from 1 to 499 in
   c:\Windows\System32\spool\prtprocs\x64, delete all of them except winprint.dll;
3. Delete all Print Processors and drivers (except winprint) from the reg primal HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Impress\Environments;
4. Restart your computer and connect to the shared printer.

As a workaround, if the previous methods haven’t helped, connect your printer via UNC path following the instructions in the commodity
How to Print on Windows 10 Network Printer from XP.

Error
0x0000011b: Windows Cannot Connect to the Printer

The mass issue with connecting shared network printers with error
0x0000011b
started after installing Windows security updates from September 15, 2021.

When connecting a
shared printer
from a remote computer an error appears:

        Connect to Printer
        Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation failed with mistake 0x0000011b.

This event is related to the latest security updates in which Microsoft is trying to shut the Impress Nightmare vulnerability. Unfortunately, the updates are non fully tested and cause massive errors 0x0000011b.

To solve the problem, y’all need to remove the last security update
on the computer where the printer is shared
(!). Depending on the version and build of Windows on the computer sharing the printer, you demand to uninstall ane of the following updates:

• KB5005565
  — Windows ten 2004. 20H2 and 21H1
• KB5005566
  – Windows ten 1909
• KB5005568
  – Windows 10 1809 and
  Windows 10 LTSC
• KB5005030
  — Windows Server 2019
• KB5005573
  – Windows Server 2016
• KB5005613,
  KB5005627
  — Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8.one
• KB5005563
  – Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 (who has an
  Extended Security Updates subscription
  for Windows vii and Serve 2008 R2)

To remove an update, go to
Start
->
Settings
->
Update
&
Security
->
View Update History
->
Uninstall updates. Select the recently installed update based on your version/build of Windows (for example,
Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB5005565)) and click
Uninstall.
Or use the
wusa
control (specify the update number for your Windows build):

wusa.exe /uninstall /kb:5005565

Restart your computer and endeavour to connect your network printer manually or
using Group Policy. Note that if users cannot connect network printers without local administrator permissions (due to the PrintNightmare vulnerability prepare), you lot tin temporarily allow non-admin users to install printers past running the control:

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers\PointAndPrint" /v RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

And then the user will be able to connect the shared printer and you must set the value to
RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators = 1.

After uninstalling the update, you demand to hibernate information technology from the installation. In this case, information technology won’t be automatically installed on the next Windows Update scan cycle.

You can hide updates with the official tool
wushowhide.diagcab
or using
the PowerShell PSWindowsUpdate module:

$HideList = "KB5005565", "KB5005566", "KB5005568"
Hide-WindowsUpdate -KBArticleID $HideList -Verbose

If you are unable to uninstall the update, as a workaround, y’all tin can connect a network printer through the local port. For example, the local port name for connecting a printer from a remote computer might look like this:
\\pcname123\HP1220

Connecting a printer via a local port is described in
the article
about another common error connecting a network printer – 0x0000007e.

Another workaround is to fix the reg fundamental
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Organisation\CurrentControlSet\Control\Impress\RpcAuthnLevelPrivacyEnabled
to
0.