Frustrated reader Dave says he hates Windows networking. He writes in: Windows Networking is a huge pain in the arse. It defeats its entire purpose: easily moving files around. I don’t think I’ve ever set up a network easily, without a lot of trial and error and thrashing about various wizard screens. Windows Networking often requests a USB flash drive to copy/paste Networking settings, policies, and password on a router or other machines. What if your router has no USB port? You’re stuck keying in a bunch of stuff and praying it works. I hate how network places spontaneously disappear from My Network Places. I’m often forced to re-add network places, especially FTP servers.
You already know how to share a PC’s printer on your home network, and now it’s time to give the Mac users some love. If you’ve got a printer hooked up to your Mac that you want to share out to Windows PC’s, you don’t have to get your hands dirty with Samba. Using Apple’s Bonjour client for Windows, it’s easy to detect and use shared Mac printers. Here’s how. More »
