Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

["Daniel da Veiga" <danieldaveiga@gmail.com>]

On 3/8/06, Kris Kerwin <kkerwin@insightbb.com> wrote:
> 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
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>

I couldn't think of a more "complex" solution right now, but couldn't
you simply make your IP static? I've done it at work because our DNS
was failing, simply copied the network configurations gained with DHCP
and made it permanent...

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Daniel da Veiga
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