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.
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