Shared printing os9 and osx

I have a Mac G4 desktop with airport card connected by wireless to Airport Extreme base station, my G3 desktop is connected through a router attached to the single port of the base station. I have an Epson non-wireless printer connected to a USB hub and switch manually USB cables from the G4 and G3 (since I have not been able to get the G3 to share the printer)..
I can print wirelessly using my Macbook Pro.
I have a PC connected by USB to a Brother printer. The PC is connected wirelessly through the airport extreme base station. I loaded the Brother drivers by directly connecting the macbookPro to the Brother printer and it prints fine.
What I would like to be able to do is wirelessly print to the Brother from Macbook Pro and the G4. I configured printer sharing on the PC.
The PC and the Macs are on different floors of the house.
Recommendations?

Hi, G4M -
At a minimum, the G4 (DA) model came with the following CDs -
Software Restore
Software Install
Apple Hardware Test
Mine also came with separate CDs for -
iMovie 2
iDVD
Mine was purchased directly from Apple. If yours was purchased through a reseller, it may have been bundled with additional software as part of a reseller promotion. If so, there may have been additional disks that came with it.
Very late machines of that model series may also have come with separate install CDs for OSX 10.0.3.
Note - the OS 9 version that shipped with the G4 (DA) models was a model-specific version of OS 9.1, one which used Finder v. 9.1.1. This means that they can not use a retail OS 9.1 Install CD. They can, however, use a retail OS 9.2.1 Install CD.

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