Re: NAS attached printers in a mixed OS network?

Colin Brough wrote:

Does anyone have any experience of using a printer attached to a NAS
in a mixed Linux/Windows network?

I currently have both my printers connected to my Linux box; both are
USB connected. The Windows laptops that are also used in the house (by
others!) can both use them fine remotely - as long as the Linux box is
switched on!!

If I were to obtain a NAS - which I'm thinking about for the storage
principally - am I likely to be able from the Linux box to access the
printer attached to the NAS?

To give a concrete example, the Buffalo Linkstation range:


http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/network-storage/linkstation/linkstation-live/

The manual says:

If a USB printer is plugged into your LinkStation, you can
easily add the printer to any Windows PC on your network.
Follow these steps for each PC that you want to be able to
access the printer.

(then there step by step Windows printer setup instructions; the
remote printer name is in the form "\\LinkStation_Name" (where the
name is set in the earlier NAS setup process).) Intriguingly the
Linkstation's Printer name cannot be changed from "lp" (short for
LinkStation Printer, apparently!!).

Cheers

Colin


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