Hi Everyone,
On Friday, May 14, 2004, at 05:05 AM, WAMUG Mailing List wrote:
I have two imacs and a G3 on an ethernet.
(snip)
Tried turning on USB printer sharing but thought vaguely that this is
actually how you drive the common printer off the network - does it
install
an icon on the desktop and one drag and drops to that from the remote
computers?
Tom Lewis, in beautiful Jervis Bay, NSW, Oz
Tom, I too would like to understand the mysteries of USB Printer
Sharing.
I have a blue clamshell ibook (9.2.2) and want to link it to a HP 1200
laser printer, and have my g3 bronze Powerbook (9.2.2) print to it
also. Reading MacHelp it says only that USB printer sharing can be done
if you are on a TCP/IP network (doesn't say it can't be done on an
appletalk network but doesn't say it can either). Is this true? If so,
how does one tell one has set up a TCP/IP network? MacHelp is anything
but. Can anyone direct me to references on how to share a USB printer
on a 9.2 ethernet based network? I couldn't get it to happen though
went through all the steps in the Help. No relevant refs turned up in
the Apple TIL either. TIA,
David
I've used USB printer sharing with a Brother HL-1240 and a number of
iMacs running Mac OS9.
This is what I did:
1. Setup the physical network. Each iMac had an ethernet cable that
went from the Mac to an ethernet hub/switch.
2. Setup the TCP/IP addresses. I allocated each computer an IP address
manually. Control Panels > TCP/IP. Select Configure Manually, IP
address 192.168.0.x (x is different for each machine, I started from 1
eg 1,2,3,4), subnet mask 255.255.255.0.
3. Connected the USB printer to one Mac.
4. Installed the driver for the printer on all Macs on the network.
5. On each computer I turned on USB printer sharing. Control Panels >
USB Printer Sharing. Start/Stop tab, click on "Start".
6. On the computer where the printer was connected, share the printer.
Control Panels > USB Printer Sharing. My Printers tab. Select the
checkbox next to the printer that should be displayed there.
7. On all the other computers, connected to the shared printer.
Control Panels > USB Printer Sharing. Network Printers tab. If the
shared printer isn't already there, click on Add to locate the printer
on the network.
8. On all computers, goto the chooser and select the printer. Apple
Menu > Chooser. When you select the printer icon in the chooser, it
should appear on the right hand side list of printers.
I know this is probably an abridged version of what you need to do.
I'm also sure there's a "HowTo" on the net somewhere, but if there
isn't, this might help.
Regards,
Paul.
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