Setting up a Wi Fi LAN

Have an iMac Intel desktop and a MacBook Pro laptop both connected to the internet using an Apple Wi Fi router. Need instructions on having both form a LAN as well as Adding a Printer and a remote Disk drive now being used as a time machine resource. Is there an Apple publication which provides step by step instructions on how to proceed ? The HP printer and external Disk drive are now only connected to the iMac via ethernet wired connections.

edida wrote:
Have an iMac Intel desktop and a MacBook Pro laptop both connected to the internet using an Apple Wi Fi router. Need instructions on having both form a LAN as well as Adding a Printer and a remote Disk drive now being used as a time machine resource. Is there an Apple publication which provides step by step instructions on how to proceed ? The HP printer and external Disk drive are now only connected to the iMac via ethernet wired connections.
Check Knowledge Base and/or do a Google search.

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