Now printing to it from Windows should work. If you have its firewall enabled in System Preferences, you might need to open the LPD printer port (TCP port 515) in the firewall. Your Mac should now be listening on the LPD port. Sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ After a lot of research, I discovered that support for LPD printer sharing is included in Mavericks but disabled by default.
When I upgraded the Mac to Mavericks (10.9), I found that it wasn’t listening on the LPD port. Snow Leopard shares the printer using the Unix LPD (also called LPR) protocol, among others.
#Multiplexing error in idvd windows 7#
When the Mac with the printer was running Snow Leopard (10.6), I could add the printer on Windows 7 using Control Panel>Hardware and Sound>Devices and Printers>Add a printer>Add a local printer>Create a new port>LPR Port and then entering the hostname or IP address of the Mac and the CUPS printer queue name (which the lpq command in Terminal shows). I had to give up on it (and that’s without a Windows firewall getting involved). But on Windows 7, Apple’s Bonjour service (as of version 2.0.2, which hasn’t been updated in years) is flaky, spewing tons of error messages to the event log and frequently losing the connection to the printer. It starts a service that discovers printers using the Zeroconf protocol, of which Apple’s implementation is called Bonjour (formerly Rendezvous before they lost a trademark dispute). The printer is connected to a Mac with USB and shared using System Preferences>Sharing>Printer Sharing.Īpple provides Bonjour Print Services for Windows as a free download. Every few years I have to figure out a new way to share a Mac’s printer with Windows PCs.
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