From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FHAy8-0004Bw-T3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 02:33:37 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k292WXFp020632; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 02:32:33 GMT Received: from sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92.asp.att.net [63.240.76.166]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k292SSri022533 for ; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 02:28:29 GMT Received: from [10.42.6.166] (isu166053.ilstu.edu[138.87.166.53]) by sccimhc92.asp.att.net (sccimhc92) with ESMTP id <20060309022828i9200d7lble>; Thu, 9 Mar 2006 02:28:28 +0000 From: Kris Kerwin To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:28:27 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603082028.27531.kkerwin@insightbb.com> X-Archives-Salt: 033f0f69-c803-43b2-91cd-8ec765802f06 X-Archives-Hash: ba7e110994e959d986d6c2fba9523543 Hi folks! I have a quick question. I'm a college student. I share my printer with my roommate. We have separate computers; he uses Windows XP, and I Gentoo. Together, we're behind our school's router which dynamically assigns us both IP's. Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it from one another's computers. However, we would like to be able to share it over the network instead to make life easier for the both of us. However, there are a few problems that I'm foreseeing. First off, I have a laptop with only one ethernet port, so setting up an ad hoc network between us is out of the question. Also, my school has a "one port - one computer" rule that prohibits routers. Second, since we're both behind a DHCPd server, we both have dynamic IPs. There's no easy way to point his computer to the right server if it has a dynamic IP. Third, since we're both behind a router, using something like DynDNS to provide a static contact despite the dynamic IP won't work either. So, I guess what I'm wondering is if there's any way to make this work, or if I'm SOL? Thank you much for your help. Kris Kerwin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list