Need a SoHo LAN Printer Sharer - advice/recommendation please
I’ve just taken delivery of a shiny new Toshiba R100 Laptop from my generous employers – funding a Apple PowerBook is not going to happen in my corporate environment!
This has presented me with a problem in my home office: my previous laptop had a docking station with an old fashioned parallel port, which I plugged straight into my Lexmark laser printer. The USB connection on the Lexmark is plugged into my iMac, and it manages to share the printer though the hidden world of OS X with an iBook. The new laptop has only USB connections, so I’m looking for recommendations for the any of the following:
• Affordable printer sharer to sit on the LAN (wired into the router is fine)
• A software solution for the Mac to allow printer sharing with computers from the dark side
• A nasty USB hardware switch
My home network is a Netgear ADSL Wireless/Router. The iMac is hard wired into the router, the iBook connects without wires and the Toshiba laptop connects either way.
Thanks in advance!