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Printing to a Windows 98 Shared Printer

Mon, 02 Jan 2006

After upgrading to Tiger, my shared Windows 98 printer disappeared. Today I buckled down to see where it had gone. It turns out there were a few factors that needed adjustment.

* I had changed my Windows workgroup name from 'Workgroup' to
  'House'.

In order for the Samba browser to find it, I needed to change my default workgroup:

* Somehow my "LM Broadcast" settings for printer sharing had reverted
  to "No".

I needed to make sure that the "LM Broadcast" setting was set to "Yes" in the "File and Printer Sharing" settings:

Once these two items were set, the computer appeared in the "Windows Printing" list like it used to:

and after choosing the computer, the printer appears:

I'm not sure why, but I've had to reboot the Mac to make this work sometimes.