Have Mac desktop with USB printer. Attempting to share with PC over the network. However I get the message: You do not have sufficient access to your computer to connect to the selected printer
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On Mac side, turned on printer sharing for the printer.
On PC side, installed Bonjour. I can see the printer, but when try to connect I get the above message.
How can I get around this error message, and print?
Best Answer
It appears that the iMac is denying access (to its printer) to the PC based on incorrect login credentials. One could try creating an account on the Mac and using that account to connect from the PC to the printer.
Also, Bonjour is an Apple product. Older versions of Bonjour are very incompatible with Windows 7 and there are numerous web posts dedicated to fixing/removing Bonjour from Windows PCs, especially in relation to Bonjour's mDNSResponder.exe interfering with network access.
There is another way to configure the printer sharing, through SMB and CIFS, which is the Windows-compatible method used by all *nix systems, including Apple (which is FreeBSD under the hood).
On Mac:
On PC:
Above info on CIFS/SMB from: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1770.html