On Mar 21, 2010, at 7:08 AM, Jared Earle wrote: > 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? No, it's just a plain HP Deskjet 6800 > > > -- > Jared Earle :: There is no SPORK > [email protected] :: http://jearle.eu > Hosting :: http://cat5.org > Blog :: http://blog.23x.net
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