The other option is that you open your Keychain access on the Mac, search for the printer name and then delete the entry. You are prompted for the Windows user name each time even after you have ticked the check box that says “Allow this information to be saved in Keychain on the Mac so it won’t have to be entered in the future.” To get around this problem, remove the shared Windows printer from your list of Printer on Mac and re-add it using the steps above.
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You’ve then to click the job in the print spool, enter your Windows username and password and only then is the document sent to the shared Windows printer. Sometimes you may notice that you print jobs are stuck in the queue with the message On hold (authentication required).
Open any app on our Mac that supports printing - like Text Edit or Pages - and press the Cmd + P shortcut to open the system print dialog, choose the Windows printer from the list of available printer and start the print job. Go to System Preferences - Sharing and turn on Printer Sharing. Click the Add button to access that printer from your Mac.
Next choose the shared printer from the list and then under Use, select “Select Software” and choose your printer model from the list.
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It should be same as your Windows PC host name.
It is a simple (classic) printer that is not web-enabled, meaning it cannot connect to the Internet directly. You have a desktop computer running Windows and this machine is connected to a printer with a USB cable.