I have literally been trying to connect to a printer in my Homegroup all damned day long so that I can do my Nursing Homework in a nice quiet envrionment(my room), instead of cooping up in the living roomj where it's constantly noisey. I set up a homegroup, and connected my computer to it as well as the main computer where the Printer is located. I go into the Homegroup sharing options and it shows that Windows has detected a shared printer and has a button next to it that says "install", but once you click that button literally nothing happens and you're still unable to connect to the printer.
Once I realized that didn't work I went in the control panel>Device and Printers and scanned for the printer on the Network, it didn't detect the printer. I then tried to connect to the printer by selecting "The printer I want wasn't in the list" It gives you a list to manually connect by typing something like \\computername\printernameOnce I do that, I get an error message "Windows Cannot connect to the Printer - Error 0x0000052e" Which apparnetly implies that the logon credentials are invalid, when they are in fact not invalid. I am connecting to the Network on my desktop via a Wireless Netgear router, although I don't see why that would matter.
Anyway, I also tried to connect to the printer by typing IP address of the other computer, and it brought up a list of drivers and of course the printers drivers that I wanted were NOT in the list. I'm out of idea's.. Anyone? :(
I'm using Windows 7 64 bit
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