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
> 
> 
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Richard L. Peskin, RLP Consulting, Londonderry, VT 
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