HOWTO: Print To Your Mac’s Printer From Windows
Description This article steps you through setting up a printer in Windows that’s connect directly to an Apple Mac on your local area network (LAN). Symptoms You attempt to add a shared printer that’s connected to a Mac on your network but cannot locate the printer when you browse the network You want install a [...]
Read More... Article Date: July 30th 2009
HOWTO: Set The Default Program To Open Certain File Types in Windows (EG: jpg, gif, etc)
Description It can be quite annoying when you double click a file and it opens a program you don’t want or expect. This HOWTO article describes the simple process of setting the default program that opens any file type. You’ll mostly want to open pictures such as jpg, gif, etc with a certain program but [...]
Read More... Article Date: July 29th 2009
HOWTO: Access Windows files from an Apple MAC over the Network (Part 3)
Description This is Part 3 of a 3 part tutorial on HOWTO set up both your Windows PC and your Apple Mac to allow you to access a shared folder on your Microsoft Windows PC from your Apple MAC. If you’ve landed here by mistake and are looking for Part 1 or Part 2 then [...]
Read More... Article Date: July 28th 2009
HOWTO: Prevent ‘Open File – Security Warning’ Appearing
Description In Windows XP when you double click a file (usually of type EXE, BAT or VBS but could be others) on a network share the Open File – Security Warning dialog box appears informing you that the publisher could not be verified. Symptoms When you attempt to double click a file stored a network [...]
Read More... Article Date: July 28th 2009
HOWTO: Share your Mac OS files with Windows over the Network (Part 2)
Description This is Part 2 of a 3 part tutorial on HOWTO set up both your Windows PC and your Apple Mac to allow you to access a shared folder on your Mac from Windows. If you’ve landed here by mistake and are looking for part 1 then click a link below. HOWTO: Share your [...]
Read More... Article Date: July 26th 2009
