We have a HP printer that hides in the basement at the moment, attached to a Win 98 machine. I'd like to open it up so we can print to it from OS X [and Linux as well]. Does anyone have any recommendations for this?
Options that seem to have potential to me: 1) Leave Win 98 machine on all the time. No idea if Linux/Mac could talk to this properly, and I suspect the machine would die regularly anyway. 2) Move the printer to our Linux file server and try to hook the printer up via Samba. No idea if Macs can talk to this. I assume Windows/Linux could. 3) Buy a printer server. The obvious options being: Netgear PS100, a device which attaches to the printer itself without wires, but claims to only support Windows. [I've seen some mention online that it will support Linux, and therefore I assume OS X]. 4) Netgear PS110/113, these look more like a router and can support 2 or 3 printers at a time. Looking on amazon I see a person who loves it and a person who hates it. Supposed to have XP problems. 5) I think I saw a wireless Linksys. Not too sure about this, but would have some benfits. Any other makes any good? I usually use Netgear because [they used to] look like the kind of devices that are used professionally and because they list which OS' they support [which is usually correct]. Hen | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
