LAN with OS/2 and Windows nodes

My OS/2 desktop and laptop machines connect by cable through a Linksys
WRT54G router using netbios with no problems. (My laptop can also
connect by wi-fi, but this is not quite as error-free.) However, my
wife wants to add her new WinXP laptop to the LAN, and she would like to
use the printer which is presently attached by USB to my desktop
machine. I have the following questions.

1. Do I need to switch protocols from netbios to netbeui? If so, is
there any downside to this? If not, what has to be done on/to the WinXP
machine?

2. Is it possible to access the printer attached to my OS/2 machine from
the WinXP machine? That is, is the OS of the machine with the printer
transparent to the printer driver on the WinXP machine?

3. I believe an alternative to attaching the printer to my OS/2 machine
would be to buy a print server and connect it to the router. Is this
approach OS-neutral? That is, does a print server depend on OS-specific
drivers? Would I be able to print from any machine on the LAN?

4. If a print server is a good approach, any recommendations for
specific brands and or models?

5. Have I missed anything important?

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Fred Blau
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