Re: FN-FORUM: Networking advice

date posted 14th December 2007 11:02

How odd.=20

I can get my PC printer working on the MAC quite easily, as long as there i=
s
a MAC driver available it all works. Apparently leopard combined with the
Bonjour client on the PC will make this even easier.

No, the problem I have is getting the irls to be able to use the printers
(attached to PC). It seems with them being on WiFi and the PC on wired it
proves impossible unless there is something called bridge in there
somewhere.=20

It's all very complicated. Though.

R




On 14/12/07 11:56, "Jerad Zimmermann" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

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> On 14 Dec 2007, at 11:23, Rob Colton wrote:
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>> As a family we have a number of different computers spread about.
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>> The little woman has a WinXP notebook and iMAC (1G) both with WiFi
>> (airport
>> card on MAC)
>> I have a PC with XP and an Intel iMac the iMac has Airport but it is
>> wired
>> for speed
>> The light of our lives, she who must be obeyed or she=B9ll scream
>> (daughter)
>> has a mac Mini with Airport
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> Let's hope EMF don't cause cancer!
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>> Now the 2 girls are using WiFi and I am using wired networking.
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>> The Wifi goes via an Airport Extreme base (basically a WiFi router)
>> This connects into a LinkSys routher.
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>> My wires go to a switch which is connected to the router
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>> The router is connected to the broadband cable modem.
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>> Prob is I have lots of kit they would like to use, printers being
>> the most
>> often requested, we=B9d also like to be able to share files (except
>> for my
>> collection of art pictures). We=B9re also getting a server set-up
>> which they
>> could be able to use to backup and store stuff like music, images
>> and photos
>> on.
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>> Anyway we can gt them all talking?
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> Pray? Seriously, I talked to some boffin at PC-World (not the acme of
> expertise I admit) and he told me that getting my PC and my Mac to
> share a printer over a local network was hideously difficult. I tried
> anyway and gave up after a couple of days of changing parameters. I
> couldn't set my all-in-one printer up on the router itself as I was
> told that if I did I would lose it's scanning capacity so I left it
> hooked up to the PC via hardwire. Anyway, I hope someone else can
> help you 'cause I'd like to do it myself. Usually what I do if I want
> to print from the Mac is email the file to the PC and then print from
> there.
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> ~jerad, Windows XP Dell, 2Wire 1800HG router, Lexmark all-in-one, Mac
> Powerbook (wireless)
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