| A router will share your internet connection quite nicely, and it will also act as a switch so you can share files. To share your printer you will need a print server. This depends almost entirely on the make/model of printer you own. If you have a printer with both USB and parallel port connections, and the ability to use them both at the same time, this is no problem. You can use the USB connection with your mac, and get a parallel port print server to share it with your PC over the network. If your printer does not have both ports, or can't use them both at the same time, you will have to find a print server that supports the same protocol that OS X uses. I've never seen one of these, but I'm sure they make them. Or, if by some change your printer has a print server internally you could just use that. To share files you will need to either set up a user on your mac that will allow connections from windows, and use that every time you connect, or connect from you mac every time, and log in using any user account on the PC.  |