Hi,
I have a shared brother HL2140 printer connected through USB to a Windows 10 PC.
I have two Windows 10 laptops and I'm able to print from these laptops using the shared brother printer.
The problem is with my windows 11 laptop that cannot connect to that printer.
From my windows 11 laptop, when I click on Network in File Explorer, I see the Windows 10 PC shared folders as well as the shared printer. I can access those folders and the files in them but when I try to connect to the printer I get the following error message:" windows couldn't connect to the printer. check the printer name and try again."
I added "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PrintRpcAuthnLevelPrivacyEnabled = 0" on my windows 10 and I tried the following methods I found on the web on my windows 11 but none of them fixed the problem:
1-Edit group policy, and under Administrative Templates | Printers, Configure RPC connection settings by choosing enabled and under options choosing RPC over named pipes
(I was able to use gpedit on my home edition after I enabled it using the following:
FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F")
FOR %F IN ("%SystemRoot%\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package~*.mum") DO (DISM /Online /NoRestart /Add-Package:"%F")
2-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers\RPC, double-click the RpcOverTCP key and change the Value Data to zero (0) and then click OK. Double-click the RpcOverNamedPipes key and change the Value Data to 1. Click OK.
3-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PrintRpcAuthnLevelPrivacyEnabled = 0
4-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers\PointAndPrintRestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators = 0
5-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\PrintRpcAuthnLevelPrivacyEnabled = 0
6- install the complete software of the printer
could you help me figuring out what I have missed or if there are other methods, I'm not aware of?
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