Chey wrote:
I got four computers. One iBook with OS X, AMD Box running Linux-Mandrake 8.0, and a HP Pavilion laptop running XP. One year old iMac is not going to be part of the network.AFAIK, if a printer will work under Linux, it will work as a network printer. It's best to use your Linux box as the printer server (you need to install and configure Samba). For a long time we had an HP OfficeJet on one of our Windows boxes and had interminable networking problems. If it was in a good mood it would accept print jobs, if it was in a bad mood it would refuse to do anything, ad if it was just feeling a bit grouchy, it would talk to the Linux box but not to the other Windows boxes. After hooking it up to the Linux box, we've had no problems whatsoever (it also discourages people from rebooting the Linux box into Windows!).
There is only one printer to share between the three in the yet to be network. I have an HP 970Cse scanjet printer. Will this work as a network printer? Do I have to have a printer that specifically says it is network capable or any recent printer will work?
I'm not sure about Mac/Linux connectivity, but with OSX it should be pretty easy.
Sir Robin
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They're part of everything now. They used to be boxes with
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Robin Turner
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Bilkent Üniversitesi
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Turkey
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