Using a USB Hub on Linux ?

[Fred Erickson]

On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 11:00 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:56:17 -0400
> Jim wrote:
> 
> > Is there anyone out that is using a USB hub to connect to one USB 
> > Printer from mulitiple computers ?
> 
> You will probably have better luck connecting the printer to one computer and
> connecting the computers together via ethernet.  All of the computers will then
> be able to access the printer.  And you'll have the added benefit of the
> computers being able to communicate with each other, as well.

And, if you don't wish to leave a computer on all the time to act as a
server, you can get a small print server appliance (I have one from
Hawking - think it was 30 USD or so) that the printer can plug into and
have it's own ip address.