Error 0x000006d9 when sharing a printer on Windows 2008 R2

By |2016-12-11T15:25:08+00:00February 29th, 2012|Windows, Windows Firewall|4 Comments

When sharing a printer on a Windows 2008 R2 machine (or on Windows 7 for that matter), the operation might fail with the following error message: Printer settings could not be saved.  Operation could not be completed (error 0x000006d9) This could happen if the Windows Firewall service on the computer is stopped or disabled.  Enabling [...]