Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

[Eric Bliss <eric@creativecow.net>]

On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:28, Kris Kerwin wrote:
> 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.
> 

Back before in-home networks were practical, my dad had a little gray box that 
had three cables going in the back end, and a switch on the front - "A/B".  I 
think that box was for the old parallel printer ports, but I'd imagine that 
if you go down to Best Buy or another computer store they'd have something 
similar for sharing a USB device between multiple machines.

It's possible you'd need to flip a switch when you want to print, but it would 
still be easier that moving the cables, and it won't break any of your 
college's rules regarding the network.  Also, it won't require any additional 
configuration headaches.

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Eric Bliss
systems design and integration,
CreativeCow.Net
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