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Office Printer & Windows 7

OrbitzXT

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Most of the computers in my offices at work have Windows XP on them at the moment. I'm slowly converting them over to Windows 7 but have hit a bit of a roadblock. We have this big printer/scanner/copier in the front that is connected to the office network, so for example you can scan a bunch of documents and have the PDFs sent to a particular computer. I have a Windows 7 computer all set up, but the PDF is not reaching the computer after it scans.

I imagine there is something I'm doing wrong with the sharing process on the Windows 7 computer. Enabling sharing is pretty easy on XP, I thought I had everything set up on Windows 7 for sharing but apparently not. Any thoughts on what I can check to get this working?
 
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Hi,

Does your printer use Windows shares (//computername/share) to save PDFs to networked machines ?
If yes, maybe you need to enable "legacy" encryption for shares on Win7. You'll find it in Network and Sharing center -> sharing.

If that doesn't help, try modifying permissions on shared folders (right click -> share with -> 'everyone').

A very non-elegant approach is to go to folder properties and manually edit security, and add read/write permission for "NETWORK".

I hope one of these helps you.

BTW... If your XP machines can access shares on Win7 machines is seems all should be OK.

Cheers,
 
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