[CS-FSLUG] Network printer sharing with Windows

[Nathan T.]

On 10/7/05, David M. <dmcglone at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> On Friday October 7 2005 12:56 am, Stephen J. McCracken wrote:
> > David M. wrote:
> > > On Saturday October 1 2005 10:24 pm, Nathan T. wrote:
> > >>Hi everyone, we just got a laser printer on sale and we need to be
> > >>able to get to it from all the computers at home. We have a network
> > >>set up, but we need to get a Mandrake 9.1 box to share it over the
> > >>network.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > Are you able to browse the other computers on the network? and are
> those
> > > other computers able to browse the host?
> >
> > While I do think it valuable to learn about the ins and outs of Samba,
> > have you thought that it would probably be much easier to get a network
> > print server to hook the printer up to? Then every computer would be
> > able to connect without requiring any other computer to be turned on as
> > well.
> >
> > Just a thought.
>
> And also a good point.
> --
> David M.
>

Where do I get information on one of these network printer servers and how
much do they tend to go for.

The lats time I saw anything like that, it was some sort of router with a
print server built in, do they have usb ports on them and run Windows CE or
something?
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