How can I be sure that I am not printing on someone else's printer?

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[mwchris]

The problem is I have frequently logged onto my computer thinking I was connected to my internet service. After many months I realized that sometimes I am sometimes being connected to a neighbor that does not lock their service. I have a laptop and use it to connect to another computer in my house via the mac airport. It really makes no sense as to why it would choose another computer to connect to bc that is much further away bc I am usually right next to the airport when I log in and it is selected as my default. I am concerned bc on a few occasions I have tried to print personal things and they were never printing. Instead of figuring out what the problem was I would use the desk computer to print. Thanks. Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Your explanation is somewhat confusing . . . So, you use a laptop and print to another computer on your network, but sometimes your laptop connects to a different wireless network, and when you print it doesn't print to the printer attached to YOUR network. Is that correct?

Regardless of whether I understood you or not, if you haven't installed the drivers for your neighbors printer it isn't going to print out most likely. Also, you should get some sort of warning that the document failed to print. Not to mention when I print I always have a printer dialog open up that tells me which printer I am using.

I would go into system preferences, then network, then highlight airport and click configure at the bottom of the screen. Make sure "by default" is set to preferred networks, then delete any network out of the list that you don't want it to automatically connect to. Then, click Options and select ask before joining a wireless network. And, if you have administrator privileges, you can set it to require a password to change networks.

Hope this helps, if not, please try and explain the situation a little better, that is unless I got it correct.

 

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