Hi Hen, It would be useful to know what kind of HP printer you have and what built-in ports are on the thing.
Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us On 1/11/03 7:01 PM, "Henri Yandell" <bayard at generationjava.com> wrote: > > We have a HP printer that hides in the basement at the moment, attached to > a Win 98 machine. I'd like to open it up so we can print to it from OS X > [and Linux as well]. Does anyone have any recommendations for this? > > Options that seem to have potential to me: > > 1) Leave Win 98 machine on all the time. No idea if Linux/Mac could talk > to this properly, and I suspect the machine would die regularly anyway. > > 2) Move the printer to our Linux file server and try to hook the printer > up via Samba. No idea if Macs can talk to this. I assume Windows/Linux > could. > > 3) Buy a printer server. The obvious options being: Netgear PS100, a > device which attaches to the printer itself without wires, but claims to > only support Windows. [I've seen some mention online that it will support > Linux, and therefore I assume OS X]. > > 4) Netgear PS110/113, these look more like a router and can support 2 or 3 > printers at a time. Looking on amazon I see a person who loves it and a > person who hates it. Supposed to have XP problems. > > 5) I think I saw a wireless Linksys. Not too sure about this, but would > have some benfits. > > Any other makes any good? I usually use Netgear because [they used to] > look like the kind of devices that are used professionally and because > they list which OS' they support [which is usually correct]. > > Hen > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
