turn usb printer into wireless?

[Doug]

On 01/01/2011 12:08 AM, wcj9996 wrote:
>
> Doug:
>
> If you can use a wired print server check the following from Amazon:
>
> Trendnet 3 Port Print Server
>
> I have been using one foe several months with good results.  It has 
> two USB 2.0 and one parallel port, all separately addressable.  I paid 
> less than $50 for it.
>
>   walt 
This sounds like a very nice simple solution, and I intend to buy it.  
(The price is just a few dollars higher, today.)  I thank you for
your quick reply. I downloaded the installation manual, and now I have 
to ask a few questions that are not obvious to me, but of course to 
anyone who has set up a network:

1.  The network will consist of 3 computers: one Win 7, one mostly 
PCLINUXOS (PCLOS) dual booting very seldom to Win XP, and one
laptop with XP, PCLOS, Debian, Ubuntu, and MINT, mostly running PCLOS. 
The first two will be wired to Ethernet, the third will be alternately 
wired or wireless, via wireless router.  There will be two printers (one 
color, one B/W laserjet) both of which have USB inputs available.  Since 
this will now be a true network (I guess) I assume that one machine will 
have to be a server, altho I really would just as soon they all be 
equal. If one has to be a server, it will be the W7 machine, for various 
good reasons.

2.  How do I set the computer names, the network name, and the network 
and computer ip addresses? What is a MAC address,
and how do I find it or set it?  Is there somewhere I can read up on 
this, in _plain English_ not gobbledygook?  (I have several books on W7 
that may help. Perhaps I can borrow an XP guide at the library.) What is 
the best and easiest source of information on Samba?

3.  Are there things that I should know unique to Linux with regard to 
this device?  If so, what?  Are they likely to be the
same for all 4 distros? Is there any Linux support on the CD that comes 
with it?

4. Did you have to call the tech support people, and if so, did they 
know about Linux?

Thanx, Walt.  --doug



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