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TLDR: I stand by my guide, thanks. I would never choose to try to do it through the GUI, considering the performance drag, and it didn't even work.---Follow up...I was able to get the local USB printer added on through the Raspberry Pi OS via VNC Viewer, but it took a very long time, ertainly not easier or slower than the command line way. The Zero W is so slow to respond to any input.After the local printer was added and shared on the RPi (without the proper PPD file, since that would have required browsing the web on the RPi looking for it, or trying to transfer it over somehow from the PC), the printer was neither visible under Network on the PC nor addable using the command line (rundll32 printui.dll PrintUIEntry /in /n \\print-server\sam).I think it's because CUPS is part of the basi…

TLDR: I stand by my guide, thanks. I would never choose to try to do it through the GUI, considering the performance drag, and it didn't even work.---Follow up...I was able to get the local USB printer added on through the Raspberry Pi OS via VNC Viewer, but it took a very long time, ertainly not easier or slower than the command line way. The Zero W is so slow to respond to any input.After the local printer was added and shared on the RPi (without the proper PPD file, since that would have required browsing the web on the RPi looking for it, or trying to transfer it over somehow from the PC), the printer was neither visible under Network on the PC nor addable using the command line (rundll32 printui.dll PrintUIEntry /in /n \\print-server\sam).I think it's because CUPS is part of the basic OS now, but SAMBA is also required for the printer sharing to Windows to work.

Okay, lots of stuff here.To begin with, errata doesn't mean what you think it means. It's a list of errors or misprints from a first edition, corrected in following editions. So it looks like you're saying that I got a whole bunch of details wrong about drivers settings, but really you're just adding new info and details, which is great.Second, I didn't say to turn on SMB 1.0, so it really isn't fair for you to say that that's part of my guide. I was very clear that you don't need to do that, if you follow my plan.As for your alternative plan, it sounds good! I would only say that it might not be "easier" to try to do everything through a GUI interface instead of using ssh. If you notice, I was very clear and thorough through every step.To do it your way, you'd have to add steps…

Okay, lots of stuff here.To begin with, errata doesn't mean what you think it means. It's a list of errors or misprints from a first edition, corrected in following editions. So it looks like you're saying that I got a whole bunch of details wrong about drivers settings, but really you're just adding new info and details, which is great.Second, I didn't say to turn on SMB 1.0, so it really isn't fair for you to say that that's part of my guide. I was very clear that you don't need to do that, if you follow my plan.As for your alternative plan, it sounds good! I would only say that it might not be "easier" to try to do everything through a GUI interface instead of using ssh. If you notice, I was very clear and thorough through every step.To do it your way, you'd have to add steps about either attaching a monitor, mouse, and keyboard, including the expensive and hard-to-find adapter cables to plug into the Zero W, or else turning on VNC services and then installing VNC Viewer on Windows. You have to include that stuff in how "easy" you consider everything to be.I encourage you to put together another Instructable with your way to do it, or I could do it. I'm going to try out your way soon. I'm interested to see if it's effective at making the printer browsable in Network, tho it might still be simpler to add the print directly and not try to fix the Network browsing.

If you want, you can open this page in a web browser and use the Edit link to fix the layout. Then you can delete this comment.I couldn't see the Edit link using my cell phone web browser or Instructable app, only on my laptop.

No, I tried using a loopback plug and it didn't work.It did, however work on a router which wasn't connected to the Internet. It's just looking to be assigned a LAN address. An ethernet switch won't work either.