First off, HP JetDirects are the best printservers IMHO. We have tried several different brands, D-Link, Linksys, NetGear, etc and none of them have help up like the JetDirects. The others work fine but about once a week I spend my time on each non-HP rebooting the print server because they fail for some reason or another.
IP printing is IP printing no matter what brand of print server you use, assuming you will be using ip printing. Just point your printer to send to ipp:\\$ipaddress\$portnumber and you are printing. The most common printer port is 9100, that is what most OS's use as the default but different vendors use different port numbers ie NetGear uses 4100. I did have a net gear that you didn't even have to configure, if must have used some sort of SMB protocol because it just showed up in WINS or LinNeighborhood, and you just captured the printer port. --chris On Wednesday 07 April 2004 10:25 am, Jason Tower wrote: > i need a couple of these for a job, HP jet directs are great but > expensive. can anyone recommend an inexpensive ethernet print server > that plays nice with linux? speaking of which, do any such devices > support usb printers (not that i need it now, just curious)? thanks, > > jason -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
