On Wednesday 08 March 2006 18:28, Kris Kerwin wrote: > Currently, in order to share our printer, we simply unplug it from one > another's computers. However, we would like to be able to share it > over the network instead to make life easier for the both of us. > However, there are a few problems that I'm foreseeing. >
Back before in-home networks were practical, my dad had a little gray box that had three cables going in the back end, and a switch on the front - "A/B". I think that box was for the old parallel printer ports, but I'd imagine that if you go down to Best Buy or another computer store they'd have something similar for sharing a USB device between multiple machines. It's possible you'd need to flip a switch when you want to print, but it would still be easier that moving the cables, and it won't break any of your college's rules regarding the network. Also, it won't require any additional configuration headaches. -- Eric Bliss systems design and integration, CreativeCow.Net -- [email protected] mailing list
