covind wrote:


What is Samba? Wherre do I get it?

Samba is a protocol developed to allow Unix/Linux machines to network
with Windows machines. OSX is based on a form of Unix - BSD. It comes
with OSX, I believe. You'll have to look in your Mac's network
configuration settings, Help files, or try Googling for something like
"networking Mac + Windows". http://se.samba.org/samba/


You're saying that both the Mac and the PC must have identical user
accounts set up? Does that mean another user will still not be able
to see files on the other machine?

Unless you are using Mac OSX Server - yes. Make identical user accounts
and passwords on all machines.

How does this address the problem of the XP machine not being able to
see the HP laser printer?

I have no idea because I don't know what you did or didn't do. Did you
try to add the printer to the Windows machine? I find that HP's Network
Printer Wizard works very well to add network laser printers to Windows
machines. Here's a link to HP's site about that:

http://tinyurl.com/2py39

Malke
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