Comments on: How To Make A Printer Wireless

By: printer

printer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:48:30 +0000

good info, i like this article.
thanks

By: MacBernac

MacBernac — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:45:48 +0000

Wanted to add, both computers are Macs–one’s my MacBook and one’s a 2005 iMac (one of the colored ones w/a CRT monitor). Has 9.5 gig HD running Panther.

By: MacBernac

MacBernac — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:44:24 +0000

Thanks! I’ll try that & let you know the results!

By: Jibz

Jibz — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:25:51 +0000

There is a way to do it with Macs, but if the other computer is a Mac also then I think all you have to do is go to the print/fax preferences and hit sharing then go to sharing (systems prefs) the hit share printer and if both computers are on the same network then go to the other one and go to the finder>go>connect to server and type the ip address and share printer. hope this helps! it did for me!

By: MacBernac

MacBernac — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:13:14 +0000

Wanted to add, my laptop is a MacBook.

By: MacBernac

MacBernac — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:12:32 +0000

There must be a way to set this up w/Mac, using my laptop, my old iMac (in the basement) and my HP DeskJet (also in the basement). Would love to know how. Will tinker w/it myself and post results if no one else has figured it out.

By: aweirdguy

aweirdguy — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:37:03 +0000

Well I guess your method would work, but you sure made it way more difficult than it needed to be.

Start with your always on pc, with the printer installed. If you do not have file and print sharing enabled, run the Network Setup Wizard to turn it on.

Right click the printer, choose sharing and share the printer.

On any other pc in the house (wired or wireless) go to Printers and Faxes and click Add Printer. Choose Network Printer, and Browse. It should show the printer, you might have to click the name of the pc first. Click to make it the default printer.

Print. It doesn’t care what your user/pass is. No Run box, no network password.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 03:35:55 +0000

How can I do this with wired Mac & wireless PC

By: Jordi

Jordi — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:16:53 +0000

I’ve been doing this for lots of years, and I have never needed to use the same username and password in both computers.

My trick is, if I’ve never shared a folder in the server computer, create a dummy folder in the desktop, go to its Properties’ sharing tab, enable folder sharing and when it asks me what to do, I choose to only enable folder sharing (sorry, this only happens the first time, and I can’t exactly remember what it says). And finally delete the dummy folder. This way the username/password dialog does not appear if you use different usernames in both computers.

By: Kristoffer

Kristoffer — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:35:07 +0000

I don’t know how our setup actually is, but here are the basics I know about (my father manage the network at home).
We have one router out to the world. This is connected via some things to the printer. The router is also connected to our wireless router that send signal over the wireless network. We also have a document server, which don’t use that much energy. A part of the network is turned off when we go to bed (printers and document server). The rest is left on because we have IP based phones.