Shared cellular wireless network?

My firm is moving to a temporary space and I am hoping to build a small network to share a NAS and internet access. The key is we won't have an internet pipe to tap into: no DSL, no cable modem, etc. Question: can I use an iPhone as a hotspot and share the cellular data with the network I wantto build? There will be about 3 computers that have wireless, so that's easy: they connect right up to the iPhone hotspot. However, there are 3 other computers and the NAS that don't have wireless connectivity. I have an airport base station, and airport express, a small switch/hub, and a MacBook Pro. Thoughts?

For the wired clients, you can use the AirPort Express to join the hotspot's Wi-Fi network and share this connection via its Ethernet port. You can then connect an Ethernet switch to the Ethernet port on the Express to provide network connectivity to the wired devices.

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Hello and welcome to Apple Discussions.
On OS X Server, you need to use the Server Admin utility (Applications > Server ) to share the local print queue. This requires the Print service to be added/started and then a queue created for the local printer.
Seems unusual that you would want to share a wireless printer from the server. The MacBook 'clients' would still be able to connect directly to this printer without having to connect via the server share so without knowing all the details of your setup it just seems an odd requirement.

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Have browsed the forum but didn't find an answer I understood to this problem.
I have wireless network at home driven by a Netgear wireless router - my broadband is wired to this. My iMacG5, and two PC laptops connect wirelessly. I also have an Airport Express which has been used to stream music to my stereo.
I now want to connect my wife's work laptop. This does not have wireless. My goal is to have the AE in our office upstairs, and configure it such that I can plug an ethernet cable from the AE unit to my wife's laptop. SImple. But not working.....
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108040
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Can't print from laptop (windows 7) via wireless router .to desktop (windows xp) with usb attached HP v40 all in one.
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Worked when laptop was running xp.
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No error messages.
printing from the desktop work just fine.
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I am reporting this as solved. I submitted this problem. The problem started when updated my laptop from Windows XP to Windows 7. When I did, The Lexmark printer on my desktop worked find with the new laptop system. The HP V40 did not work. The Desktop simply received each print job submitted from the Laptop (via a wireless local network) and discarded it. I could see the print job come into the V40 print queue and could see it disappear.
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I tried a dozen or so combinations of removing and installing the printer on both my Windows 7 laptop and my Windowx XP desktop (with the V40 attached via USB), and manually removing and installing print drivers on my desktop PC, it finally works. What did I do? I have no idea, but I believe that manually removing the v40 drivers on the desktop was part of the solution. While viewing the available printers on my XP desktop, I clicked on File and one of the tabs led me to a place where I could remove drivers for each printer ( I just removed the ones for the V40).
Here is what I DID NOT DO:
I did not follow the advice of the HP support person that I contacted via the telephone. That advice was to reinstall Windows XP on my desktop. That clearly was not the problem when I spoke to him. But he would NOT listen to reason. Thankfully, I have enough PC knowledge to know that his advice bas bogus
I am pleased with the resulting availablilty of the V40 again.
I have no idea how to officially close this problem.
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Past couple days... my daughters SLEEPING MBP has appeared on my MBP as a shared device. How is this possible if it's sleeping?
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Here are the relevant System Preferences Mr. Stamm:
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I have a windows 8.1 X64 installed on my pc. i have connected a USB wireless network adapter to it so that i can connect to another wireless
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I've got a Modem/router/AP (TD-W8970) and i set it up to work as wireless router with DHCP server enabled. i wanted to share my internet
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now i can connect with my laptop to my wireless router and use internet connection that is being shared by PC's wireless adapter but i
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Hi,
Please try the following steps for test to configure your network sharing.
1. Open CMD, type ipconfig/all. Then remember USB wireless card DNS server address.
2. Open Network Connection, Change Adapter settings, USB adapter properties, check network sharing.
3. Open Local network connection, generally speaking, Router's default lan address is 192.168.1.1, you can asign the desktop PC IP as 192.168.1.2.
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After reading through the forums, it looks like I am not the only person who has encountered this, but I haven't found any real answers and my situation is a bit different.
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I just bought a 1TB time capsule today. I am backing up my files as I type. I also used it to set up a wireless network in my apartment. This wireless network will be used by my roommate as well.
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