In Windows 11 systems, many users have encountered the problem of being unable to connect to shared printers, which has brought inconvenience to their work. In order to solve this problem, PHP editor Xigua has compiled three practical methods. In this tutorial, we will introduce these methods in detail to help you easily solve the problem of connecting to a shared printer.
Solution to win11 unable to connect to a shared printer
Method 1
1. First, we enter the "C: WindowsSystem32" location of the c drive.
2. Find the "win32spl.dll" file and back it up to another location.
3. Then we go to the computer connected to the printer, right-click the start menu and open "Run".
4. Enter "regedit" during runtime and press Enter to open the registry.
5. After opening, enter the "Computer HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPrint" location.
6. After entering, "Create" a "DWORD value" in the blank space on the right.
7. Then rename this value to "RpcAuthnLevelPrivacyEnabled".
8. Double-click to open it, change the value to "0" and confirm to save.
9. After the modification is completed, just restart the computer to solve the problem of the shared printer being unable to connect.
Method 2
1. Right-click Start in the taskbar below and select "Run" in the options to open it.
2. Enter "gpedit.msc" and press Enter to open.
3. Enter the Group Policy Editor and click "Computer Configuration - Windows Settings - Security Settings - Local Policy - Security Options" on the left. Find "Account: Guest Account Status" on the right and double-click to open it.
4. Set its status to "Enabled".
5. Then double-click to open "Accounts: Local accounts with empty passwords are only allowed to log in to the console" on the right, and set it to "Disabled". Click OK to save.
Method three
1. We open the "Control Panel".
2. Then click "View Network Status and Tasks".
3. Then click "Change advanced sharing settings" on the left.
4. Then enable both "Network Discovery" and "Printer Sharing" and save the changes.
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