Good idea. I'll look around. Kris
On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:56, Eric Bliss wrote: > 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
