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Home Lan & printer Sharing

  • 03-11-2004 2:54pm
    #1
    The Real B-man
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,740 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    i am thinking of settin up a WIRED home Lan to share the internet and printer im puzzled on the printer issue how will it print if the host pc is turned off?

    Equipment i have

    -Sharkoon 5port Switch
    -2 pci 10/100 Network cards

    Equipment i Need:

    -20ft of RJ45 cable + connectors

    if i have left stuff out please tell me im confused


Comments

  • #2
    Adam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,866 ✭✭✭Adam


    short answer, it wont...


  • #3
    stevenmu
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    Longer answer, if you really need it to then you'll need to either

    A: Buy a network card for your printer if there is one available for it.
    B: Buy networked print server, such as a HP JetDirect box (they're called servers but they're really just little boxes that a network cable and printer cable plug into, they're not a whole seperate PC.

    You then give the network card/jetdirect box and IP address an use TCP/IP printing to print to it, I think that's there by default in windows NT/2000/xp not sure about 95/98/Me. HPs network cards and jetdirect boxes also come with a utility called JetAdmin that you can use instead of TCP/IP printing, I used to avoid that like the plague but it might have improved since, was ok for home use anyway and might be easier than the TCP/IP way.


  • #4
    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    I personally use a Netgear PS101 mini print server for an Epson Colour 600 as well as a stylus RX500 attached to my PC, although all the PC's actually print to a Linux box running CUPS which then dishes the jobs out to the Netgear Server and to my Workstation. So if either of them gets turned off the jobs still get stored and don't cause print errors in windows. I can also see who's using up all the cartridges haha....


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