[P1] Networking a printer

[Angus Wallace]

I know exactly how you feel.

I've had an ibook (my first mac) for about 2 months, having come from 
PC/Linux land. Whenever I want to do something new I have to say to 
myself 'Is there a really simple way that this could be implemented?' 
It sounds silly I know, but after 10-12 years of difficulty, simplicity 
isn't something that comes naturally.

I'm learning though!! ;-)

All the best,
-Angus

On 27/05/2004, at 12:13 PM, Brian Olesky wrote:

> Since I started this, I may as well end it. At least you'll get a good 
> laugh
> at my expense.
>
> Originally I just wanted to know how I could use one computer on my 
> wireless
> network to access the printer connected to the other. Several of you 
> posted
> the simple solution--turn on print sharing in the one with the printer.
>
> But of course, beyond a shadow of a doubt, I knew it couldn't be that
> simple. The world doesn't work that way. So I immediately set out to 
> make an
> easy task impossibly complicated (as you already know if you followed 
> the
> thread). I created more havoc in both computers, sent more files to 
> strange
> printer icons in strange places, steadily making things worse and 
> worse,
> until after about 3 hours, I couldn't print from either machine. In 
> the main
> machine with the printer attached I somehow managed to completely 
> trash the
> Print Center, to the point where it wasn't even there anymore, and on 
> the
> remote machine, I had a line of print jobs stacked up in the Print 
> Center,
> trying to print to all kinds of bogus printers, and stuck in an endless
> loop, with no way to delete them. I finally shut both machines down,
> apologized to my wife for all the cursing and desk pounding, and gave 
> up for
> the night.
>
> This morning I called AppleCare, and found out I had screwed things up 
> so
> badly the only solution was to download and completely reinstall 
> 10.2.8 on
> the main machine, which also somehow fixed the remote.
>
> So when everything was back up on the main machine, I decided to try 
> the
> original advice. I turned on Print Sharing in the main machine, went
> upstairs to the other, sent the print commands thru exactly like I do 
> on the
> other...and that was it. I had networked a printer? In all of about 2
> minutes.
>
> I know ease of use is the Mac motto, but is it possible something can 
> be so
> easy, the brain just doesn't accept it?
>
> Or to put it another way, I guess I know what PC people go through now.
>
> Brian
>
>
>
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