On 5/9/2010 7:48 PM, Brian K. White wrote:
On 5/9/2010 9:48 PM, 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:
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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
Jetdirect is pretty much it in my experience. I've used many print servers with sco unix, solaris, freebsd, and linux and they were'nt all unreliable, but the the few non-hp's that were solid were built in to big Savin units or the same type of large office units from other companies. A few other external units have been ok but not any of the usb ones except HP. If Intel makes one I'd be willing to take a chance on it, but if you just want it to always work, and do not want to buy 3 or 4 different things to find one that works well enough, HP JetDirect 175X. If you do have problems, you may safely know that they lie in your pc or in the printer. Yes I know they cost as much as a netbook or nettop that you could run linux on. You might even be able to make it almost as problem-free as a print server by using a live-cd version that boots from a usb stick into ram instead of a normal install so no matter what you can always just reboot to fix any problem. Personally, if it was for work and I needed it to always work, I'd get the hp.
There are a LOT more solutions than Jet Direct... Look here. http://tinyurl.com/2828vuv -- _____________________________________ At one time I had a Real Sig. Its been downsized. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org