Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

["Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net>]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:56, Eric Bliss <eric@creativecow.net> wrote 
about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba':
> 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.

Now a days they usually call such devices KVM switches.  Although, that may 
be a term specific to boxes like that which allow a monitor, keyboard, and 
mouse to be shared between all the computers in a rack.

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