Connecting USB scanners and printers to a wireless network

[Peter Goggin]

On 17/09/14 00:30, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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
I do not want to tie one of the laptops to the printers. The samsung has 
both ethernet and usb ports . I  connected the ethernet port to my wifi 
router and can see the printer from all four laptops. I want to do the 
same for the other printers and scanners. This means I need a device to 
act as a printserver on my local network.  The two print servers I have 
do not appear to be supported by ubuntu.  When I had a windows set up I 
was able to configure them from one of the windows machines. The printer 
attached to the pintserver was visible to all the other machines (all 
window desk top machines with a wired connection to the network)  I now 
have replaced the old windows machines with laptops running ubuntu and 
connecting to my router via the wireless network.  Since I was unable to 
get the scanner to work with the printservers in the window set up, I 
suspect I may have the same touble with the linux set up. I do need to 
have all of the printers available connected vi the wifi router ethernet 
ports.

Are there any print/scanner servers for connecting usb devices to the 
ethernet ports om the router?


Regards

Peter Goggin