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 1FHWYF-0003NY-P4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:36:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k2A1XKno013555; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:33:20 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k2A1QC34001505 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:26:12 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 192A6FDBF for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:26:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21399-09-2 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:26:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip70-178-174-179.ks.ks.cox.net (ip70-178-174-179.ks.ks.cox.net [70.178.174.179]) (using SSLv3 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB434FDBB for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 01:26:10 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 19:26:02 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200603082028.27531.kkerwin@insightbb.com> <200603090956.22879.eric@creativecow.net> In-Reply-To: <200603090956.22879.eric@creativecow.net> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603091926.02742.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net X-Archives-Salt: 108cb6fc-0e3a-4527-8c9d-57ccf583de75 X-Archives-Hash: b7ab7ab6c97e428b912bba0f9ba9489b On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:56, Eric Bliss 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. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list