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Along the IT guy's line of thinking, Netgear (and I'm sure others) makes
a small printserver that just plugs in to the network, the power, and
directly in to the printer. It's somewhere around $50 I think.
For #2: Yes, it's doable. Just enable file and print sharing and then
open the printer's properties and share the printer there.

On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 19:49, Mark Phillips wrote:
> My daughter=92s school has a Windows/Novell network but they do not
> allow/enable file and print sharing. All printers must be connected to
> a print server of some sort, so they have a unique IP address.=20
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> A printer and an old p166 machine have been donated to her class, but
> the printer is not =93networkable=94 =96 it is an inexpensive inkjet prin=
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> =96 a Compaq IJ300. I have Windows drivers, and according to
> linuxprinting.org this printer does not work with Linux. It might work
> with the Lexmark Z11 drivers=85I have a Z11 and I tried the drivers and
> the printing was not very good. The students are printing essays,
> reports, (including images) so the printing needs to be of pretty good
> quality (the Linux based Z11 printer output I managed to print was
> really not very good).
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> The campus IT guy is really nice, very young, and his best advice is
> to buy an HP printer and a Jetdirect print server and throw away the
> junk that was donated.
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> 1. Is there any way to use Linux, the p166, and this printer to make a
> workable printing solution (i.e. a printer server that allows the
> students to share the printer)?=20
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> 2. (I shudder to ask this on this list, so please do not flame me=85I am
> just trying to help out my daughter=92s classroom!) If I install Windows
> 98 on the p166, is there a way to configure it as a print server? This
> would allow me to use the Windows drivers, which work quite well.
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> Thanks!
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> Mark Phillips
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> Phillips Marketing, Inc.
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> 480 945-0798 office
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> 480 945-9197 fax
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> mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
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Bryce C <Plug@BryceCo.Net>
CoBryce Communications

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