Can’t find and add a printer from a local network area?

Can’t find and add a printer from a local network area?

Hi there!

To answer your question do you have a domain environment ? or just workgroup ? if you are working in domain environment you need to have privileges to add a printer from network, which means that after printer is shared it must be visible in the network folder. ( if you are having appropriate user rights or privileges ) if you are not in a domain you need to log to the computer which printer attached. just type the IP address of the computer and give credentials to log in ( user name and password ) after successfully login it will show up the shared things in that computer. if printer is shared you will see the printer. simply just double click on the printer and it will ask your permission to install printer drivers. just install it. now you are done. now you can print the document by using your printer.

Secondly check your IP address carefully because you may have different IP address and it will avoid you to contact from existing network.

If you are in a domain environment, please ask your network administrator whether you have appropriate permission to contact a printer and do print jobs

Thanks