On Thursday 09 March 2006 11:56, Eric Bliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba': > 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.
Now a days they usually call such devices KVM switches. Although, that may be a term specific to boxes like that which allow a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to be shared between all the computers in a rack. -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." -- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh -- [email protected] mailing list
