Re: USB Printers

["Chris Madsen" cmadsen@xxxxxxxx]

I'm late to this discussion, but under XP at least (and 98, as I recall) a
local printer can be set up to share. In Windows, go to Printers and then
right click on the printer in question, choose Properties, then the Share
tab.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Henderson" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2003 6:31 PM
Subject: RE: USB Printers


> As much as I'd like to attribute to malice all which issue-ith from Bill's
Underworld Lair, in this particular case I
> think the need to get to a printer - that's attached locally - via a
network, would be such an odd request that it would
> never occur to a program designer to create a channel for it.
>
> The problem is that Windows recognizes the difference between a local
printer and a network printer, and when the
> printer's local you aren't presented with an option of going through a
network to get to it. Why would any reasonable
> person need to?
>
> So, my fellow unreasonable folk...that said, I can almost guarantee
there's a way to fool Wingnut into letting you get
> to a local printer through a network...but I don't know what that way
might be.
>
> _Brian H.
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: Patricia M Godfrey
>
> Harry's question ("since I can print to a USB printer from Xy if that
> printer is attached to another printer on the network, why can't I set up
> something to send it to itself over the network?") is perfectly valid,
> and it rather looks as if the answer is, Because Big Brother Bill doesn't
> think you need to--or doesn't want you to.
> Patricia
>
>