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Error code 0x80070035 redux, and I am getting battier by the minute
This is not a new problem, and at the end of this post I'll list a much longer "thread to a thread" with an overkill amount of background.
One of my daughters got a new Macbook, and passed her ASUS laptop to the other daughter. In configuring the ASUS, I hoped I could again "confront the beast" of that computer, alone among my household's stable of laptops and desktops, not being able to print to my shared network printer USB connected to my Win7 box. Yes, XP, Win7, and now even a Macbook, all print fine to my printer, but not the second-newest computer in the house, a two-year-old Win7 ASUS.
Somehow the ASUS stopped being able to access my computer on the home network.
Let's say my computer is called MYWIN7:
- You can see MYWIN7 from the ASUS networking configuration
- You can ping MYWIN7 from a command prompt from the ASUS
- But if you double click on MYWIN7 from the ASUS, or if you try to browse to it when adding a printer, or if you specify the printer by its share name (\\MYWIN7\Canon iP4800 series), you get Error code: 0x80070035 The network path was not found
And nothing I've tried, with a lot of googling and a lot of use of this forum and others, has fixed the problem.
Remember, without breaking a sweat, I've gotten more than five different computers, running Win7, XP, and MacOS, printing off my PC's USB printer. And remember also that the ASUS was one of them, and then about 19 months ago it just magically lost its ability to print because it couldn't "find" my PC, and I've spun my wheels since.
Ideas? Remember, it's not so much a printing issue as it is that the ASUS, alone among my computer portfolio, cannot access my computer across our home network.
Could a Windows 7 repair (something I'm not super familiar with, and although I do have a Win7 disk at home, this laptop did not come with one of its own) perhaps restore what's missing?
It's not the printer, it's the network (Error code 0x80070035) is the thread I referenced at the start, for much more background.