Windows 11 and Network Printer Sharing

[turbguy]

I just got a new Windows 11 box. My older (2011) Windows 10 box connected easily to my wife's USB-connected Canon MP730 printer over the home network to her Windows 10 box. This new Windows 11 box will not do so (at least after HOURS of attempts and a lot of CoPilot discussions). I can get to her Windows 10 Public Folder on her machine from this Windows 11 box, and trhe printer shows up on the network, but I keep getting error messages ("Operation could not be completed (error 0x00000040). The Specified Network Name is no longer available"). VERY FRUSTRATING!

Anybody have a suggestion? (Yes, a 64 bit driver from Canon's website is installed on the Windows 11 box).

 

[crenedecotret]

I just got a new Windows 11 box. My older (2011) Windows 10 box connected easily to my wife's USB-connected Canon MP730 printer over the home network to her Windows 10 box. This new Windows 11 box will not do so (at least after HOURS of attempts and a lot of CoPilot discussions). I can get to her Windows 10 Public Folder on her machine from this Windows 11 box, and trhe printer shows up on the network, but I keep getting error messages ("Operation could not be completed (error 0x00000040). The Specified Network Name is no longer available"). VERY FRUSTRATING!

Anybody have a suggestion? (Yes, a 64 bit driver from Canon's website is installed on the Windows 11 box).

Is you account a local administrator? A few years back, MS did changes that will prevent a non admin user to install drivers for a shared printer. You might have the driver on the windows 11 box but the pc might still be trying to download it from the share . I think 0x00000040 was sometimes related to this issue but I'm not 100% sure.

If you do have admin rights to install drivers, you could try using the Windows 10 box's IP rather than the name ie \\192.168.1.10 setup an IP reservation on your router if this works so that the windows 10 box will not get a different IP when you reboot it.

Another way would be to setup the printer as "local". You would use the option to create a new port. The port would be \\IP\sharename