Samsung android to XP printer?

What is the trick for printing from a Samsung to an XP attached
printer?
I can get to it fine on WiFi from a laptop.

What is the trick for printing from a Samsung to an XP attached
printer?
I can get to it fine on WiFi from a laptop.

You did not say which printer model.

First, grab the printer driver app from Google Play store into your android.
Then set it up. I cannot help you with set up. I have installed an HP
printer driver on my Android. I have set up the HP printer as a WiFi network
printer. I can print the HP WiFi settings to get the IP address. This is
used in the set of the android HP printer driver. I use the HP as the color
printer for my entire network. I works for my WinXP machine and one of my
Win10 machines. I can not get it to work on my Win10 Pro machine. It may be
a network problem.

Good luck.



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On 10/9/2016 2:16 PM, wrote:
What is the trick for printing from a Samsung to an XP attached
printer?
I can get to it fine on WiFi from a laptop.


There is no such thing as a XP Printer.

A printer can be connected to a XP based OS and that OS can share the
printer. However, Android does not perform SMB or NT Share printing.

You need a printer that has direct WiFi or Bluetooth printing.

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However, Android does not perform SMB or NT Share printing.

One (I) can download android apps that handle SMB and browse windows network
shares. Heck, one can download an android app for Remote Desktop Protocol.
With a windows desktop on your android, one could connect to an XP attached
printer. Heck, there must be an easier solution. If it was a USB printer,
one could use a microUSB / USB adapter to connector directly to the USB
printer. First, download the app driver for that particular printer.

When there is a will, there is the app store. Stock android is quite limited
because it is designed for a limited machine. The app store permits such
limits to be overcome, with the limit that it is an app rather than an OS
driver that does the work.

My suggestions would take many hours querying the app store and many hours
in setup. Money always trumps work. One could purchase more gear and do less
work.



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On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 10:11:53 -0700, "Norm X"
wrote:

However, Android does not perform SMB or NT Share printing.

One (I) can download android apps that handle SMB and browse windows network
shares. Heck, one can download an android app for Remote Desktop Protocol.
With a windows desktop on your android, one could connect to an XP attached
printer. Heck, there must be an easier solution. If it was a USB printer,
one could use a microUSB / USB adapter to connector directly to the USB
printer. First, download the app driver for that particular printer.

When there is a will, there is the app store. Stock android is quite limited
because it is designed for a limited machine. The app store permits such
limits to be overcome, with the limit that it is an app rather than an OS
driver that does the work.

OK thanks. I am trying to keep this to a minimum of hardware. I know I
can get a blue tooth adapter but then I would not be able to get to
this from my network PCs. I will have her look for an app and a
Brother 5140 driver.

On 10/11/2016 1:11 PM, Norm X wrote:
However, Android does not perform SMB or NT Share printing.

One (I) can download android apps that handle SMB and browse windows network
shares. Heck, one can download an android app for Remote Desktop Protocol.
With a windows desktop on your android, one could connect to an XP attached
printer. Heck, there must be an easier solution. If it was a USB printer,
one could use a microUSB / USB adapter to connector directly to the USB
printer. First, download the app driver for that particular printer.

When there is a will, there is the app store. Stock android is quite limited
because it is designed for a limited machine. The app store permits such
limits to be overcome, with the limit that it is an app rather than an OS
driver that does the work.

My suggestions would take many hours querying the app store and many hours
in setup. Money always trumps work. One could purchase more gear and do less
work.


Which shows it is not a Windows XP question. It is an Android question.




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On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 08:11:11 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote:

On 10/11/2016 1:11 PM, Norm X wrote:
However, Android does not perform SMB or NT Share printing.

One (I) can download android apps that handle SMB and browse windows network
shares. Heck, one can download an android app for Remote Desktop Protocol.
With a windows desktop on your android, one could connect to an XP attached
printer. Heck, there must be an easier solution. If it was a USB printer,
one could use a microUSB / USB adapter to connector directly to the USB
printer. First, download the app driver for that particular printer.

When there is a will, there is the app store. Stock android is quite limited
because it is designed for a limited machine. The app store permits such
limits to be overcome, with the limit that it is an app rather than an OS
driver that does the work.

My suggestions would take many hours querying the app store and many hours
in setup. Money always trumps work. One could purchase more gear and do less
work.


Which shows it is not a Windows XP question. It is an Android question.

I never believed it was an XP problem. I just hoped someone here had
solved it.