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Often when people have Macs and PCs on the same network, they share resources like printers. While OS X should connect and print to printers shared on Windows machines, sometimes this does not work as expected and the printers either will not show up or will refuse to accept a print job.

When this happens troubleshooting can be tricky, especially since you may have to adjust multiple configuration options to get things working as expected.

OS X's support for SMB networking is secondary to its Unix and Mac-native features, especially in OS X Lion where Apple replaced the open-source … Read more