Okay, this is driving me batty. As far as I can tell, my notebook computer should be able to, via our WiFi home network, connect to the printer hanging off of my wife’s machine.<\/p>\n
But it can’t.<\/p>\n
Does anyone have any —<\/p>\n
UPDATE: Well, writing down all the particulars (omitted) made me consider something I hadn’t tried, so I tried it, and, behold, it now all works! Yowzers!<\/p>\n
Thank you for all your unnecessary but no-doubt-forthcoming help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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