What to do if a shared printer is not searched

　　"Printer" is the most common partner in our work, and its stable and efficient operation, also determines whether our work is smooth. The user in the process of using the printer, the longest encountered difficulty is that the printer can not achieve the sharing of printing, which caused a certain amount of trouble to the user's work. Now, let's summarize some of the reasons why printers can't be shared.

　　Phenomenon One: Network Neighborhood cannot browse normally

To share a printer in Windows XP, the first thing to do is not to install the network printer directly, but to first look at the View workgroup computer item in My Network Places to see if the computer that has the printer installed (the print server) is available. If you can find a print server, the basic conditions for sharing a printer are available, and if an error occurs, you should resolve the problem first.

Solution: In the Confirmation LAN workgroup name consistent premise, enter the Local Area Connection Properties window, click the "Install" button to add "NWLink Ipx/spx/netbios Compatible Transport Protocol" protocol, You can resolve this problem without restarting the workgroup computer or by clicking the "View workgroup Computer" Item, "There is no permission to browse So-and-so workgroup ...".

Phenomenon Two: Unable to browse print server

When you are able to browse your network Places correctly, first double-click the print server icon to see if the shared printer exists, if it exists, it means that the current computer has permission to install, print, and so on, if the shared printer is not visible or the print server cannot be browsed, the current workstation does not have sufficient permissions.

Solution: This problem should be solved in two ways, one is to open the Guest account in the print server, and in the Group Policy in turn into "Computer Configuration →windows settings → security settings → local policy → user Rights Assignment", delete the "Deny access to this computer from the network" item in the Guest account The second is to ensure that the "File and Printer Sharing for Microsoft network" item is selected in the local Area Connection attribute of the print server.

Phenomenon three: The shared printer cannot be searched

This is the most common problem for most local area network users when they install shared printers in Windows XP, usually in the form of "Microsoft Windows Network" Information in the list of shared printers, while shared printers are not searched.

Solution: There are three ways to solve this problem. The first is that after the "NWLink Ipx/spx/netbios Compatible Transport Protocol" protocol is installed for "Local Area Connection", it is usually possible to search for a shared printer, and the second is to directly double-click the Network Places to enter the print server, Right-click on the Shared printer icon, select "Connect" in the pop-up shortcut menu, click "Yes" in the pop-up box to quickly install the shared printer; third, check that the print server's local connection has the Internet Connection Firewall feature enabled, and if it does, cancel the feature, If you want to use the Internet Connection Firewall feature and you want to share files and printers, install the NetBEUI protocol (non-routing protocol).

Symptom four: Driver is incorrect

Typically, the network administrator needs to transfer the driver files for the shared printer to the computer to install the shared printer driver on the computer. However, if there are dozens of computers to do this operation, it is inevitable that there will be errors, a lot of times, formal because of the printer software errors, resulting in our normal use of network printers.

WORKAROUND: "Map Network Drive" method. This method is easy to use when all printer shares are shared. For example, to install the Epson Lq-1600kⅲ printer, first share the printer driver files on the print server. Then go to the print server in the workstation's Network Neighborhood, locate and select the shared printer driver file, click the "Map Network Drive" menu item, and then click the "OK" button in the drive list. Then, when you need to provide a driver file for the shared printer, manually specify the mapped drive and, as prompted, quickly complete the drive installation.

Phenomenon Five: Network driver settings are incorrect

After the printer driver is installed correctly, printer Sharing is unsuccessful, whether the network connection is successful, the network protocol is installed successfully, and how many machines are related to each other in a workgroup. Typically, when a printer does not share print properly, we first check the native network settings.

Workaround: When you encounter this method, first check to see if the system is closed with its own firewall. Start-Settings-control Panel-Security Center-windows Firewall-off.

Service is set to normal: Work Station Service-boot-automatic. Server services-startup-automatic.

Group Policy permission settings:

1. Guest User: Computer Configuration-windows Settings-security Options-"Account: Guest account status-enabled"

2, Computer Configuration-windows Settings-security options-Local policy-User rights assignment-deny access to this computer from the network option-the Guest account in the delete (if not, you can try to empty all the accounts inside).

3, Computer Configuration-windows Settings-security options--"Network access: Sharing and security mode for local accounts" will default to "guest-only local users authenticate as guest", and change to classic → Local users to authenticate themselves (note: Group Policy calls out command----gpedit.msc )

Through the above methods, check the network settings and computer network settings are normal. When you have finished checking, you can add a new printer and the printer will work properly.

Phenomenon Six: Hardware, virus and network firewall problem

After we have installed the driver, the printer is still not able to achieve normal network sharing print, in the exclusion of Internet neighbors, remote servers, drivers and other settings, we will be in detail to check our own PC. Many times in anti-virus software, firewall block, the calculation can not normal Unicom remote printer, resulting in printing failure.

Solution: Check the local firewall, anti-virus software settings, in the case of normal printing, close the software to see if the death can solve the problem of remote printers. At the same time, users should do a good job of computer anti-virus, to ensure that the virus is not caused by the system files lost, and the resulting computer can not print normally.