{"id":2419,"date":"2019-12-20T03:53:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T11:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2019-12-20T03:53:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T11:53:59","slug":"connect-win10-to-xp-shared-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2019\/12\/20\/connect-win10-to-xp-shared-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect Win10 to XP shared printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helpdeskgeek.com\/how-to\/xp-to-windows-7-8-10-printer-sharing\/\">https:\/\/helpdeskgeek.com\/how-to\/xp-to-windows-7-8-10-printer-sharing\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Click Add a printer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Next choose\u00a0<strong>Add a local printer<\/strong>. Yes, that sounds counter-intuitive, but this is what you have to do!<\/p>\n<p>Next, click\u00a0<strong>Create a new port<\/strong>\u00a0and choose<strong>\u00a0Local port<\/strong>\u00a0from the list of options.<\/p>\n<p>Click Next and in the\u00a0<strong>Port<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>name<\/strong>\u00a0box, type in the path to the shared printer. It should be something like\u00a0<a href=\"file:\/\/aseem\/HPXP\">\\\\Aseem\\HPXP<\/a>, where Aseem is the name of your XP machine and HPXP is the shared name of the printer.<\/p>\n<p>In our case it may be \\\\copyroom\\XeroxColor<\/p>\n<p>Now choose the printer driver from the list or download the latest driver for the printer and choose\u00a0<strong>Have Disk<\/strong>. Note that if you printer is a little older, it\u2019s a good idea to download the Windows 7\/8\/10 driver for the printer and before clicking Have Disk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/helpdeskgeek.com\/how-to\/xp-to-windows-7-8-10-printer-sharing\/ Click Add a printer Next choose\u00a0Add a local printer. Yes, that sounds counter-intuitive, but this is what you have to do! Next, click\u00a0Create a new port\u00a0and choose\u00a0Local port\u00a0from the list of options. Click Next and in the\u00a0Port\u00a0name\u00a0box, type in the path to the shared printer. It should be something like\u00a0\\\\Aseem\\HPXP, where Aseem is the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}