I've finally found the right settings to let me print from my Mac notebook on my Windows printer, via my wireless network. It was quite a bit trickier than I had initially hoped, requiring installing software on both systems, but at long last it works.
My next interoperabilty project requires accessing some CD-ROM reference software that only works on Windows from the Mac. There seem to be two approaches I could try: running an emulator on the Mac, or running a Window Remote Desktop client on the Mac. I'm leaning towards the latter, since it seems like it ought to be the more robust solution--pretending to be a certain kind of TCP/IP enabled software seems like a simpler task than pretending to be Windows itself, particularly when that would have to include reading a Windows CD-ROM using the Mac CD-ROM drive. Plus the Remote Desktop software is free...
update Crap, you can only do Remote Desktop if you have Windows XP Professional. So much for that idea.
Posted by joshua at August 10, 2005 10:09 PM