Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1185 mails)

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 20:48 -0500, Jay C Vollmer wrote:
> On Sunday 09 May 2010 19:59:38 Carlos E. R. wrote:
> > On Sunday, 2010-05-09 at 19:54 -0500, Jay C Vollmer wrote:
> > ...
> > > I'd love to be able to share a single USB printer between a couple of
> > > Linux boxes without having to run a full CUPS printserver.
> > Well, you always have a full cups printserver in opensuse boxes, only
> >  that they are limited to the localhost network. You simply have to
> >  allow connections from the local network instead.
> Thanks for the replies.
> I guess that I wasn't clear.  I know that I can run a full CUPS server.  
> I'm trying to avoid that because I don't want to have a Linux box running 
> 24/7 just to provide a printserver.  I'd love to have an embedded USB 
> printserver providing simple LPR services.
> I'm wondering if someone out there has experience with a reliable one.

I have experience with several sub-$100 print server dongle thingies...
none of them reliable.  They are merely an early symptom of
frustrated-users syndrome,  which gets uglier as the disease progresses.

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Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> LPIC-1, Novell CLA
<http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com>
OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba

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