[striker100]

I know the Airport Extreme Base Station has a USB connection so I could configure a printer to print wirelesly.

Is it possible to configure a PC to print wirelessly off the same network?

Is there anywhere I could get some info on how to do this?

[ghporter]

That depends on what you mean about configuring a PC to print wirelessly.

If you want a PC to connect to the AEBS wirelessly and print to the Extreme's USB-connected printer, it's a crap shoot. You would definately need the correct drivers for the PC, but whether it would actually see the printer through the Extreme Base is a very good question. I haven't played with that sort of setup to be able to pass on any tricks and traps.

If you want to share a printer that's connected to a PC through that wireless network, that's definately doable. You tell the PC to share the printer, then you set up Samba to see and use the printer through the network. Wireless or wired, Samba doesn't care.

[striker100]

Thanks for your response
What is Samba and where can I get it?

[ghporter]

Samba is a software package that allows Macs (running some version of OS X) and Unix/Linux machines to see and use Windows networks. It should be installed on any new Mac.

Here's where I weasel out of responsibility: I am NOT a Samba guru. I can barely spell it, though I know what it does and what it's good for. You can go through the posts on this forum to see how to use it in almost any conceiveable way. Of course the search function on these forums, er, doesn't work well (yeah, that's the right words!), but you can just browse through, looking for "Samba" or "Windows network," or the like. That's where I've learned almost everything I know about it.