Our home has 4-5 Macs (depending on whether my son is at home) and uses a wireless network for all of the Macs. There are 1-2 PCs hard-wired into the router (I work from home). The main printer in the house is an ink jet printer attached to my system, which is now a 24" Intel iMac.
The problem is that recently a couple of the other Mac (both PPC based) are having trouble maintaining their printer definitions to the shared printer on my iMac. This was not a problem until recently, after I updated to the 24" Intel iMac from a PPC iMac.
On my wife's iMac (17" PPC), she occassionally loses the printer definition altogether, and attempting to redefine it will often lead to the spinning beachball for many (15-20 sometimes) minutes. Eventually, if I play around with it enought, the definitions seem to stick and printing goes back to normal. This is now happening about 75% of the time when she reboots her system (just because she does not leave it running 24x7).
I am at a complete loss to explain this and am getting increasingly frustrated (as is she). Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this and how I can stop it?
The problem is that recently a couple of the other Mac (both PPC based) are having trouble maintaining their printer definitions to the shared printer on my iMac. This was not a problem until recently, after I updated to the 24" Intel iMac from a PPC iMac.
On my wife's iMac (17" PPC), she occassionally loses the printer definition altogether, and attempting to redefine it will often lead to the spinning beachball for many (15-20 sometimes) minutes. Eventually, if I play around with it enought, the definitions seem to stick and printing goes back to normal. This is now happening about 75% of the time when she reboots her system (just because she does not leave it running 24x7).
I am at a complete loss to explain this and am getting increasingly frustrated (as is she). Does anyone have any ideas on what could be causing this and how I can stop it?