two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread Jeffrey Engle
I've got a printer plugged into my usb hub... I power that mac down, I get no printer on the other macs on my network? so can I plug another mac into that usb hub without problems? J. Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread Daggett Ken
On 29 Aug 2010, at 17:51:45 PDT, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I've got a printer plugged into my usb hub... I power that mac down, I get no printer on the other macs on my network? so can I plug another mac into that usb hub without problems? Hmmm. As I understand the term USB hub, it

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 29, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I've got a printer plugged into my usb hub... I power that mac down, I get no printer on the other macs on my network? so can I plug another mac into that usb hub without problems? You can't plug two different running Macs into the same hub

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread mark ray
I've got a printer plugged into my usb hub... I power that mac down, I get no printer on the other macs on my network? so can I plug another mac into that usb hub without problems? Hmmm. As I understand the term USB hub, it is a device that breaks a single host port into

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Aug 29, 2010, at 5:51 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I've got a printer plugged into my usb hub... I power that mac down, I get no printer on the other macs on my network? so can I plug another mac into that usb hub without problems? Hubs only have one device port, so only one mac at a time;

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread Jeffrey Engle
On Aug 29, 2010, at 7:46 PM, mark ray wrote: I've got a printer plugged into my usb hub... I power that mac down, I get no printer on the other macs on my network? so can I plug another mac into that usb hub without problems? Hmmm. As I understand the term USB hub, it is a

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread admin
Reminds of the olden days of serial switchers. Of course, that was we could pnly use one serial device at a time on that port. What is now years ago, I bought a Firewire Compact Flash device. USB has sure transcended Firewire in many ways?? -- You received this message because you are a

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread Fabian Fang
On Aug 29, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I'll have to find one of those USB 2.0 Manual Switch Share Hubs I have had very good experience using a Kensington ShareCentral 5 for such arrangements, even with mixed Mac/Windows systems. http://us.kensington.com/html/15706.html Here