Networking/accessing an iPhone and a local network printer simultaneously

I am a new mac user and I live on a boat so I need to access Internet using my iPhone as a personal hotspot. I also have a wireless network on the boat which gives me access to a network drive and a printer. My problem is that I can't seem to print or access the network drive while connected to my personal hotspot; I need to deselect the iPhone and select the local wireless network in the wifi setting to access the printer and drive.
How do I go about getting the mac to connect to both simultaneously so I can print a page to on my network printer while on Internet?

Tether to your phone with Bluetooth or USB instead of Wi-Fi. Search for "Personal Hotspot" in the user guide for instructions on how to set this up.

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Hi,
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Any ideas on this would be apreciated as I can only think a clean install but don't want to do this if not necessary.
Thanks
Jarrah

I think I gave you some bad info in the above, where i enterered the text "myserver.local" & "example.local" this was the host name of the server (Time Capsule) so not local on the computer.
No i didn't try your method, I'll give it a go - I thought the folder option was for local files and not on a server ?

Smb. Access the volumes and files locally. all lies!

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ok.. so if I try to click on it there ...
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I'm sorry, where?
hmm, lets just check this out
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This has been happening repeatedly and has been reported to the hosts in the Lounge. They "are working on a fix."

The server is available on your computer. Access the volume and files local

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Hi,
I also encountered this error but in a different situation : after having restored my Lion installation from a Time Machine backup, everything was okay except that I couldn't connect to any disk attached to my Airport extreme.
I searched for hours and even restored my backup a second time. The problem is specific to only one client since my Macbook was still able to connect to the AE. I ended up resetting all the settings on the AE and restoring them one by one.
The problem appears when I restore the address range distributed by the AE's DHCP server to the one that was configured before.
Thus the solution seems to change this address range. Must be something related to a network route or cache or anything like this.
I hope it will help anybody who encounters this problem. Luckily it seems there are very few : the number of occurences of this problem in google is very low.
Matt

The server is available on your computer. Access the volumes and files locally.

I have actually solved this issue. However, it was not easy to find support for this specific issue. Here's the problem and solution that worked for me.
The Problem
I had an issue with my Macbook Pro and Mac Pro connecting to each other. All of a sudden, I got this message "The server COMPUTERNAME is available on your computer. Access the volumes and files locally."
The Solution
After a bit of digging, I found this article:
http://www.alexanderwilde.com/2011/04/os-x-lion-connection-error-with-afp-and-wo rkaround/
Steps 1 and 2 of that article seemed to do the trick for me:
Launch /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and do:
sudo chmod o+w /Library/Preferences
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleShareClient afp_host_prefs_version -int 1
Now restart your computer.
From Finder, select an AFP server, or use “Connect To…”. This will cause the AFP Client to create the full preferences file.
Thanks to http://www.alexanderwilde.com for helping me solve this.

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I hope it will help anybody who encounters this problem. Luckily it seems there are very few : the number of occurences of this problem in google is very low.
Matt

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http://positivelyglorious.com/software-media/snow-leopard-afp-access-the-volume- and-files-locally/
I've also seen that this was previously posted late last fall without any satisfactory resolution at:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10526171
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http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/Troubleshooting.html
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Server is available on your computer. Access the volumes and files locally

I set up a VPN incoming call from a Windows XP server at home and I have an iMac in the office with Snow Leopard 10.6.5.
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Uh, help. Powerbook G3 10.4.11, and a Mac Mini Intel, both attached to a Linksys.
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Bonjour
Je souhaiterais installer mon imprimante sur ma box sfr sans utiliser le wifi. Tous mes ordinateurs sont branchés sur la box avec des cables Ethernet. J'ai connecté mon imprimante à ma box en usb, elle est reconnue est active sur la page de configuration de ma box.
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An explanation?
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Merci de votre intérêt.
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Merci.
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I have also tried a couple of other possible solutions, like disk clean and repairing Office to no success.
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