On a computer running Windows XP, open Control Panel-> Printers and Faxes and start Add Printer Wizard ( Add printer).

Nothing helped.įinally, to connect to a shared printer in Windows 10 from a computer running Windows XP, we had to use an old workaround and connect the printer via a local port. What we tried to do: In the Network and Sharing Center in Windows 10 we disabled entering password to access a PC running Windows 10 from the network ( Turn off password protected sharing), switch to Enable File Sharing for Devices That Use 40- or 56-Bit Encryption mode, tried to create the same local users in both systems. If a shared printer in the same configuration is connected to Windows 8.1, you can print anything easily. The problem appears only with network printers.

Then you specify the password and the same repeats again and again… The most interesting thing is that you can open any files on a network share in Windows 10 from the XP client without any troubles (so the problem is not in the lack of support of SMB 1.0).

Windows cant open add printer