USB Hub Connection

Hello All,
This is my first Mac and I have to say that I really like the UI and how media friendly this seems to be. On to my question. I have a home network that has 3 Windows PCs and the new Mac attached. All machines connect to a Linksys router (811g) without a problem.
I also have a USB hub that has two shared drives and a printer hanging off of it. The PCs see the USB hub, can print, and see the shared drives. The Mac cannot.
Now my knowledge is limited and I expect that the answer is quite simple. Any suggestions out there?
Thanks.

I was having the same problem with my USB hub after connecting an audio interface that used up one of my USB ports on my MacBook Pro. I connected the hub to the other computer port. That's when all the trouble started with trying to come out of sleep mode.
My solution was to connect my keyboard directly to the computer port and then daisy chain the hub out of the USB port on the keyboard. It seems that you need to have your input devices on the first part of the chain.
I hope that's helpful
Cheers.

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Hello,
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If someone could get back to meh that would be... twisted,

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If someone could get back to meh that would be... twisted,
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Robert Lespérance

Robert Lesperance wrote:
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