Printer sharing help

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copiman

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About 3 weeks ago I shared a printer that was connected to a Windows 7 PC. On another PC (Windows 8.1) I installed the printer by adding a printer and choosing the printer from the 7 PC. All worked great. Today the Windows 8 machine cannot print. After fighting with it, I uninstalled the printer from the 8 PC. The 7 PC still prints. When I tried to reinstall the printer on the 8 machine, I got this (see pic attached).
I don't recall this when I installed it originally.

The printer is shared. Network discovery and file & print sharing are on. Password protected sharing if off. When I looked to see what network group the PC's were on, this is what they were set to >Windows 7 PC was set to Home Network and Windows 8 PC was set to Private Network. I think they need to be the same but can't figure out how to make it happen. They don't have the same options. I think that Private is the same as Home and Work. By the way, there is only one network. I can get to the 7 PC from the 8 PC just fine.

I have done this many times before with no problem. The request for user name and password has got me.

Sorry, cannot get attachment to post.
 
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Don't post the screenshot as an attachment. Host it somewhere like Tinypic or Photobucket.

As for the username and password, enter the username and password of a user on the Windows 7 PC.
 
Thanks voyagerfan99. I did try that and a window pops up as something to the effect that overwriting the credentials could make some applications not function. I have never seen this before. Not sure what it means.
 
If you can network the printer either by being wireless or ethernet connection, I recommend doing it as it makes it much simpler to setup.
 
I took another look to make sure I had everything set correctly which it was. I also want to copy down the message it gave when I entered user name and password so I could research it. I rebooted both PCs and then tried to load the printer on the 8 machine and everything worked. It did not ask for a user name and password. I also found out they installed Microsoft updates last night and it caused the task-bar to go from bottom to left side. All seems to be OK for now. Thanks everyone for your response.
 
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