Re: Using air****t to share printer and scanner from several workstations

In article <IikTj.93122$jH5.77161@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Luis Ortega <lortega@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Thanks, Gregory.
> Do you have any ideas how a bunch of Macs could then share a scanner or
two?
> 
> Gregory Weston wrote:
> > In article <azhTj.10332$EH2.3712@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> >  Luis Ortega <lortega@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > 
> >> I have a classroom with a dozen G5 Mac Pros running Tiger and we want
to 
> >> allow them to use a couple of A3 photo-quality inkjet printers and a 
> >> couple of flatbed scanners.
> >>
> >> I see that the air****t base station extreme only has one usb ****t.
> >>
> >> Is it possible to use one air****t extreme base station to connect all
of 
> >> these peripherals, add air****t cards to each Mac Pro, and be able to
use 
> >> any of the printers or scanners from any of the Macs?
> > 
> > You can attach multiple printers and hard drives to the base station 
> > with a USB hub. To the best of my knowledge the base station does not 
> > share scanners.
> > 
> > You'll also probably be interested in this page:
> > <http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070118020953464>
> > 
> > G
> > 

Would be nice if I only had to reply to the OP, once.  You could use
a USB Server like the Keyspan US-4A to do that job.  Works for "Me".

-- 
Bruce in alaska
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