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icantatem

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 20, 2009
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I have installed Snow Leopard in my macbook, before that, Using a belkin router I could use my brother's printer wirelessly. It was fantastic Now I just can't

I added manually the printer and I could just call it by

smb://MATEO-PC/hp

and it just worked, now nothing happens I just get this annoying message telling me:

Connection failed: NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME

I could even share files with my brother calling it in finder by

smb://MATEO-PC

That was it now it just tells me that I might not exist or it's not available at the moment, that I should check the name or the IP.

I've called it with the IP and nothing

in the pc i have deactivated the password for file and print sharing so it could be easier.

Don't know what else to say, it's just so annoying.

PLEASE HELP!

Oh I can't connect from the PC my mac
 

Mr. Zorg

macrumors regular
Sep 5, 2007
166
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Try rebooting your wifi router. My wife's MacBook Air sometimes loses its connection to our printer (but nothing else). Nothing I do to the computer (rebooting, etc) helps, but rebooting the router fixes it every time.
 

icantatem

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jul 20, 2009
6
0
Try rebooting your wifi router. My wife's MacBook Air sometimes loses its connection to our printer (but nothing else). Nothing I do to the computer (rebooting, etc) helps, but rebooting the router fixes it every time.

I've tried that too
 

pioniere

macrumors newbie
Feb 28, 2009
4
0
load Samba console from Safari, install printer following its address, then install it in the preference panel.
 

KathyRo

macrumors newbie
Jan 26, 2010
1
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I've heard that removing the hyphen (dash) in the your computer's name can resolve the problem. So rename the Windows PC to MATEOPC instead of MATEO-PC.
 
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