Windows 7 Networking

So the last time I posted about Windows 7 my desktop machine failed to boot. For a long while I ignored it as it was not all that important to anything I was doing.

Anyway recently I was passing the machine and I pressed the power button and what do you know it booted. It had to run some repair routines but it booted. So I ran a virus scan and did get some report of a virus. Also an external drive had some hidden files that I could not access. So I removed the virus and reformatted the drive.

Then I went back to installing the shared printer. The routine was the same as I described in the previous post but again no documents would print. So I found a tip (cannot remember where right now) but simply install the printer as local (after installing the networked printer) and add a local port that maps to:

\\server\pinterShareName

I then has to install the same printer on my nephews mac notebook. So from this thread I followed the steps listed, which I will repeat here.
On the Windows 7 PC:

1. Open Control panel
2. Select 'Programs and Features' pane
3. Click 'Turn Windows Features on or off'
4. Check on the LDP protocol
5. Make sure that the printer is shared and that the shared name is short and all one word with no spaces

On the Mac:

1. Start/Applications/Unitities/Printer Setup Utility
2. Hold down the option key and click the 'More Printers' button
3. From the top menu select 'Advanced'
4. From the Device field select 'LDP/LPR Host or Printer'
5. In the 'Device url:' field type 'lpd://PCName/PrinterShareName'
6. Click the Add Button