On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Richard Peskin <[email protected]> wrote:
> The source of the problem has been located. The iMac "fire.rlpcon.loc" had 
> printer sharing turned on; turning it off solved the problem. Originally this 
> iMac was out of signal range of the wifi network, and had an HP Deskjet 
> printer next to it. It connected to the printer via local wifi, and shared it 
> over the ethernet. When the house wifi was recently upgraded both the Deskjet 
> and that iMac were within the signal range for the house wifi, and are 
> accessible as networked devices.  For some reason, which I don't understand, 
> having printer sharing turned on resulted in the Finder showing the Deskjet 
> printer in its Shared list as a PC (Windows computer). It was even more 
> confused in the Path Finder app browser; that browser showed both the Deskjet 
> printer and a disk attached to an Airport Extreme as PCs.

Does the printer have a card-reader?


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