Hi, I am in need of a solution to be able to use my printer with both my susue and my xp box and my laptop. It's a parallel port model (brother 1040) and works great with suse. I have tried using a switch box but no luck. The switch box works otherwise. Any Ideas? Chris
Hi, I am in need of a solution to be able to use my printer with both my susue and my xp box and my laptop. It's a parallel port model (brother 1040) and works great with suse. I have tried using a switch box but no luck. The switch box works otherwise. Any Ideas? Chris
If all of your machines are networked, I'd say set it up as a shared printer (sharing it on the WinXP machine would probably be easiest, although you could share it on the Linux box using Samba) then just set it up as a networked printer going to the shared printer name... I do this at home with the two Windows machines and one Linux box.
On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:28 -0600, Steve Kratz wrote:
Hi, I am in need of a solution to be able to use my printer with both my susue and my xp box and my laptop. It's a parallel port model (brother 1040) and works great with suse. I have tried using a switch box but no luck. The switch box works otherwise. Any Ideas? Chris
If all of your machines are networked, I'd say set it up as a shared printer (sharing it on the WinXP machine would probably be easiest, although you could share it on the Linux box using Samba) then just set it up as a networked printer going to the shared printer name...
I do this at home with the two Windows machines and one Linux box.
No they aren't networked I don't have the need. Also I like to keep my win machines away from my suse incase they give it wind (or something nastier) Chris
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 05:44, Chris wrote:
No they aren't networked I don't have the need. Also I like to keep my win machines away from my suse incase they give it wind (or something nastier)
If you don't want to use Samba, you can use the IPP protocol to connect XP to the Cups server on the Linux box. This way XP cannot do any damage to Linux if it gets something nasty. From my experience printer switches cause more problems than they attempt to solve and you are better to use a networking solution. -- Regards, Graham Smith ---------------------------------------------------------
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