Unable to share printer through windows sharing.

RouterOS General
1

Hi,
I have configured policy based routing on routerBoard for small internet cafe, he previusly shared printers through window sharing. After installing routerBoard to his network block printer sharing.

Firewall rules can be found under following link:
http://aacable.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/mikrotik-policy-routing-based-on-client-ip-address/

Can someone please guide me how I can enable printer sharing from mikrotik. It’s a usb printer!

Thanks

2

i would say it because you are running in 2 different subnets, if you want the nasty work around then bridge the 2 ports on the 750, as it seems like you have different switches for the different subnets, then let the pc’s share via netbios/ipv6 that will make it work, but is really a nasty work around, remember that you can also make address lists 1ip at a time, so you dont need 500+ ip spaces for 20 pc’s you can make an address lists like
source=192.168.0.1-192.168.0.10 name=servers or 192.168.0.0/27 as a list, so consider that.

win7 is especially touchy about devices not in its own subnet.

Good luck.

3

also, if there is no routing required, then its not the mikrotik stopping the print service, so if you tracert to that printer, and there is just 1 hop aka the printer, then you will not even be passing thru the mikrotik.

4

Hi, Thanks for a quick reply. I am using /16 subnet mask for LAN and for both WAN’s I’m using /24. Can this be a problem?

And Yes, I have switched 2 ports with LAN. Today, I will try bridging them.

Thanks.

5

Still no luck, I have connected all computers to 1 port still I was unable to establish windows sharing.