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Cheryl, I've had something similar with a different printer, so my first guess it XP is to blame. Share that sucker from the Mac! :D Aside from that, make sure the Guest account is active on the XP box; that's what allows an initial listing of shares without authentication. Also, try a...

I encourage you to do some research on "egress firewalls" and the benefits therein. But turning it off for 15 minutes (while already behind a router/firewall) won't hurt.

Whoa, there! Maybe you should follow the lead of FreeVNC and allow a reverse connection, i.e., allow the person who wants help to solicit it from volunteers online. I have serious issues asking people to poke holes in their firewalls, MacOS or not. -Jason

Thanks, Cheryl. I've never had problems seeing Windows resources. Perhaps I can return the favor.

Thanks, Cheryl. What about Web sharing? It says to connect to http://my-ip:5100, but the client always reports that the server refuses connection. This is using Tiger, Epson Stylus CX4600, no firewall on this Mac, and Windows clients.

I've seen Mac OS X (tiger) do some amazing things. I've read in passing (thoug I cannot find that reference now) that once can share a scanner from a connected Mac OS X machine. Can someone tell me how this is done, and if it is possible to use the shared scanner over a network from Windows...

Imagine buying 5 acres to build a parking lot, analogous to a (truly) blank 5GB drive. You could park cars in that undeveloped 5 acres, but it wouldn't be efficient; you'd have a hard time finding specific cars. Disks are much the same way. There might be 5GB of raw space, but you're gonna...