Last week I showed you how to connect your Mac to the Internet and to a local network. Now that your computer is on speaking terms with other devices and services, let’s examine exactly how you can ...

SMB/CIFS is always enabled. "Turn on file and printer sharing" basically enables some Windows Firewall rules that open the ports and allow networked access to it. It's part of the WinXP+ push to ...

If you have successfully installed and shared a network printer on your network, but somehow when you attempt to connect to the shared printer on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, the operation ...

Several wireless routers include a feature that allows you to plug your printer directly into the router to share it over your wireless network. While this should work without trouble most of the time ...