<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Kevin B. O'Brien wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:%3C4A5A4B67.6040205@palain.com%3E" type="cite"><div class="moz-text-flowed" style="font-family: -moz-fixed">I have a mixed environment of Kubuntu and Windows, and want to able to use one printer for all my computers. I have an HP LaserJet 1020 that works fine when directly connected to any of my computers. I bought a TrendNet Print Server, which only has software for Windows, of course. When I try to print to the server, all I get is a Broken Pipe error message. It occurs to me that maybe this just isn't the server I ought to be trying. Does anyone have better candidate? Thank you, </blockquote> I have one of these sitting on my HP LaserJet 6L from 1998 (yup, still works beautifully). TrendNet print servers work great with GNU/Linux. They support "TCP/IP printing", which is also known as "HP JetDirect" mode. I simply told my GNU/Linux box to use TCP port 9100 and to treat it as a TCPIP/JetDirect, and boom, worked like a charm. Also works great, as you'd expect, with Free/Net/OpenBSD. Heck, it'd probably would work just fine with OS/2 as well. :-) I highly recommend TrendNet print servers to folks for this exact reason. Mine's a TE100-MP1P, which simply means it's a parallel interface. Yours is (I think) a USB interface, but otherwise should work exactly the same. Good choice. --TP <div class="moz-signature"> _______________________________ Do you <a href="http://www.gnu.org">GNU</a>? <a href="http://www.cmosnetworks.com">Microsoft Free since 2003</a>--the ultimate antivirus protection! </div> </body> </html>