Connecting USB scanners and printers to a wireless network

[wcj9996 at frontier.com]

Peter:

I am using a Trendnet TE100-P21 printserver to connect a Brother HL-5040 
printer to the LAN.  It will support two USB printers and a parallel 
printer.  I have had it for several years and have used it with several 
Ubuntu releases.  It uses the browser for setup.

   walt

On 09/16/2014 09:45 AM, Peter Goggin wrote:
> 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
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