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If you are trying to connect to a shared or network printer in Windows 11 or even 10, you might get an error that says cannot connect to the printer and also say the operation failed with error 0x0000011b. There are several steps you can try to get around this and we will show you several and then a way that should work no matter how your computer is configured.
Here is a writeup of the process.
Here are the other fix steps from the video.
Registry fix steps
Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESystemCurrentControlSetControlPrint
Right-click on the Print key and select New → DWORD-32-bit Value
Name the new key RpcAuthnLevelPrivacyEnabled
Set its value to 0
Reboot
Uninstall any updates that match these KB numbers
KB5005627
KB5005652
KB5005563
KB5005573
KB5005565
KB5005613
Run the printer troubleshooter
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