Accessing a printer shared from windows

Fred Erickson frederickson at iname.com
Thu Jun 22 04:35:51 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 14:27 -0700, Gordon Charrick wrote:
> I previously had an HP 5510 all-in-one printer that worked great in both 
> Linux and windows. Unfortunately, it didn't work with networking so I 
> had to unplug it from one computer and connect it to the other to be 
> able to print with both computers.
> 
> Right now, I'm looking to get a new HP all-in-one printer that I can use 
> with both computers. I think I'd prefer to have it connected to the 
> windows machine and set up a share so I can access it from Linux, as 
> opposed to putting it directly on the network, since my network is 
> wireless and not many printers do wireless. I'm kind of leaning towards 
> the HP 6310. Any thoughts on this configuration?
> 
> Gordon

If the HP 5510 is still in good shape, why not get a small print server?
I use a wired model from Hawking that works very well from both wired
and wireless Fedora computers. Cost was less that $50 US. CompUSA has a
wireless D-Link advertised on their web site for around the same price
with a $30 rebate.

Fred




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