Greetings everyone.
After years of resistance, I recently capitulated to the demands of the wife for a windows laptop (started biting nails and gnashing teeth almost immediately when the damn thing went into hibernation mode and would not subsequently even turn on). But, I digress.
Despite having used linux since Redhat 4.1, my desktop pc has never been part of a local area network. Now I need to do just that with the lan consisting of a netgear WGR614v5 router, my desktop system running FC2, the Windows XP home Laptop, and a network printer for joint use of my pc and the laptop. The printer is currently connected directly to my desktop system, but otherwise the network is up and running with wireless connections through a secure mode (WPA-PSK).
O'Reilly's Linux Cookbook, chapter 14, tells me that using my desktop system as a printer-server running CUPS I should be able to share printers with a Windows PC. That is, I should not need to run samba as well as cups. Presently, two printers are connected directly to my desktop - an HP laserjet and an HP multifunction copier/fax/printer/scanner. What I think I would like to do is connect the multifunction machine directly to the netgear router for network use and keep the laserjet connected directly to the desktop.
Questions I would like to pose are:
1. Will my desktop be able to function as the print server for a "remote" printer connected to it through a rounter?
2. Would moving the multifunction machine to the router necessarily result in loss of its scanning capabilities?
Suggestions/thoughts on the lan arrangement would be appreciated.
Dave Curry
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