On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 21:21, Michael West wrote: > I have been using samba as a print server at home, but > I am often mucking around on my debian box, and sometimes this > results in my wife not being able to print. > > To increase user satisfaction I am considering purchasing one of > these dedicated print server appliances which attach directly to > the network. It must work for win98, XP pro and Debian. Ideally > it would have parallel and usb support. > > I am looking for recommendation as to where to research what would > work best. I couldn't find anything at linuxprinting.org on this. >
I would guess that just about any printserver will work fine for you. I have been using a Linksys 3-port printserver (has three parallel ports) for several years without any problems. While I don't think this particular model is still available, I would imagine that the current models work quite similarly; in fact, there was info on the Linksys website when I first bought it that told me how to make it work with linux. The printserver that I have has a built-in lpd server, so you just talk to it using lpd. It may also support IPP, I'm not totally sure of this. It was easier to configure under Linux - I just told CUPS to use it as an lpd server at DeviceURI lpd://192.168.1.10/L1. This particular device labels its three ports L1, L2, and L3. There are instructions for setting the IP address for the device here: http://www.linksys.com/support/support.asp?spid=18#tcpip and you can do this using telnet or tftp pretty easily. Under W95/98, it was actually a bit harder to set up because I had to install supplied "TCP redirector" software which basically allowed me to create "printer ports" that redirect to the printserver. I think this is much easier under XP as my understanding is that XP supports IPP directly. I'm not totally sure about this as I pretty much boot my windows 98 machine only for Quicken, and even that's going away now with Quicken working pretty well under CrossoverOffice/Wine. Good luck. nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
