I will give you some background first. I have a small network that is hooked into a linksys 4 port router. We need extra ports so I bought a 16 port switch. Right now we can share internet access and one Konica 7115 PCL6 copier/printer. The printer is directly connected to one of the computers by a parallel printer cable. I plugged a line in on the Linksys router’s uplink and plugged the other side into port #1 on the switch. I was told this switch should work. I then plugged the two computers(one being the computer w/ the direct line to the printer) and a new 3rd computer into the switch and left one computer attached to the Linksys router. I was able to set up a network and share the internet access but could not get the printer to be shared. I even spoke with Konica and we made sure all the settings were correct to share. We do not use a server but use SBC for internet and webhosting. I was told it should share anyways. Someone else told me I would have to assign ip addresses and connect the printer to the network via a ethernet cable. The printer is capanble of doing this. How would assign ip addresses anyway? Am I missing something or is this the only way to get them to share?
Also, I might be able to convince my boss to buy a simple server(we don’t share very many files or have a lot of traffic on our website). I know this is the best way to eventually get there but would prefer a cheaper solution.