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Using suggestions from this forum and ifelix, I configured my network so that all three computers (x2 Macs and x1 windows laptop PC) were 'seen' via finder. I can share files and print etc between the two macs fine, but despite setting up a new user account on the laptop PC that matched the mac shortname etc as suggested, I am unable to connect from the Mac's to the laptop.
I can see (via finder:go:connect to server)the windows laptop domain name, in this case,TIMESCO and the laptop itself (Graham-Laptop) and the ip address which is 10.0.1.3.
(ABS is 10.0.1.1 and the two Macs are .2 and .4 respectively)
The user account set up is per my mac shortname and despite then typing in smb://10.0.1.3/<useraccountname> I get the error code -36?
Any suggestions would be helpful

Are any of the computers running any kind of internet
security or firewall software?
iFelix
Hi,
Yes, I had firewall on (on the two Macs) except for file sharing, windows sharing and print sharing.
I had/have an anti virus and spysweep on the PC but windows firewall is off.
As we speak I have turned the firewall off on the the Macs and checked it was turned off on the PC and disabled the spyware and anti-virus and tried again.
I get a dialogue box entitled <SMB/CIFS Filesystem authentication> asking for Workgroup/Domain<TIMESCO>; Username<grahamdodds> and Password.
I am still getting the error -36?

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I would like to share my experience battling to figure out how to print to Windows 7 shared printer from Mac OS Lion. Myself had this problem and looking throughly in internet without success. But finally I figured out the solution by myself, hope this can help other Mac user with similar problem.
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After that, repeat the above step 2 - 7. Only for the last step I need to select the Printer Driver for my Canon MX308 for the driver name : "Canon PIXMA MX300 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.7"
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