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Everytime I change my network password, I have to reset the printer password when printing to my windows network. Needless to say, I forget the few steps it takes every time. So here’s a reminder for myself:

1. Open up the printer setup utility and click “ADD”
2. Hold down the “OPTION” key while clicking the “More printers…” button on the bottom. This is the most important step. Without clicking on the “OPTION” key the “Advanced” option in the next step doesn’t show up and the normal windows printing via network neighborhood doesn’t work for me.
3. From the top combo-box, choose the “Advanced” option.
4. Choose “Windows Printer Via SAMBA” from the device pop-up menu.
5. Enter your device name into the appropriate textbox.
6. Enter the URI to the device using the syntax “smb://ServerName/ShareName. Note that you may have to add the username and password in the urll as I did. For that, the syntax is “smb://<username>:<password>@domain/<server>/<share>”
7. Pick the printer model from the printer model pop-up menu

Of course, you’ll need the appropriate drivers, etc.

Set the Linksys router so that WEP settings are mandatory. For my router this was located in: Wireless—>Advanced Wireless Settings—>Authentication Type. I set it to “Shared Key” in order to make the WEP mandatory.

In the Wireless—>Wireless Security section set the appropriate level of WEP security (I chose 128) and create a password. Generate the keys and note the 1st one, which we’ll use to set up the AirPort settings.

Now, back to the OS X settings. Open up an AirPort settings dialog and join the network you’ve created on your router. Choose your network and then enter a ”$” (no quotes) as the first character in the password box. Following the $ sign enter the Hex characters from the 1st key of wireless security settings that were seen in the linksys administration page. (e.g. $D6AE08…)

This was the only way I found to connect to the wifi network.