Connecting USB scanners and printers to a wireless network

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 15 September 2014 22:27:17 Peter Goggin did opine
And Gene did reply:
> I don't know if this is the right place to ask these questions. If not
> perhaps some one could point me in the right direction
> 
> I have four laptops running ubuntu 14.04.  connected to my wireless
> network. The router has four ethernet ports.
> I have four periperals which I wish to make available on the wireless
> network.
> 1. Samsung CPL-320n - This connects directly to one of the ports on my
> router and can be used by all four laptops.
> 2. Brother HL2130 laser printer. This only has a usb port.
> 3 Epsom XP-100 printer/scanner. Only has usb port
> 4 Epson 3490 photo scanner. This only has a usb port.
> 
> I need the printer function of the xp100 and the HL2130 available on
> the wireless network.
>   I have been give two netgear PS121-V2 print servers.
> 
> I have no information on them. Googling gives me the distinct
> impression that they are windows devices. I have connected one to an
> ethernet port but the laptops do not see it. Do I need drivers for
> these devices? Can they be used with linux machines?
> 
> Thanks for any advice or help.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> Peter Goggin

Configure them using cups, at localhost:631, on the machine they are 
physically connected to, marking them as shared so they will advertise 
there presence, then run cupsd on the client machines, with "browsing" 
enabled.  You should, if everything is working right, be able to send a 
browser to localhost:631, and see that same list of printers on all 
connected machines.

That is all I have ever done.  One of my printers, a color laser, also has 
a cat5 port and a usb and is configured in cups as 2 printers.  The cat5 
version is faster, about 3x faster than the usb2.0 connections as the cat5 
is a 100mbit cat5.  Old & slow for cat5 stuff, but then so am I, 80 in 
about 2.5 weeks, arther and a bad knee are slowing me down.

If I need a fresh printout of a machine's .hal configuration file when I 
am working in the shop, its as simple as "lp -dBROTHEHL2140 -olandscape 
machine-name.hal" followed by a walk back to the house to get the printout 
which will be done or on the last couple pages by the time I get there.  
The landscape is because most hal file lines exceed 80 chars, much easier 
to read when its not line wrapped on every line.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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