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Print servers and how to share a printer

You should know that you don’t have to permanently leave your PC/MAC running to be able to share your printer with others on the network! With an independent print server, each network post will be free to access one or more printers on the network, without permanently leaving a machine running. Let’s take a look!

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Print servers and how to share a printer

April 22nd, 2008 - 06:56 pm ET by
  1. 1 - Introduction
  2. 2 - Print server: an autonomous box (option 1)
  3. 3 - Print server: a dedicated PC (option2)
  4. 4 - Freebox: a print server
  5. 5 - Conclusion

Some of you may already know it, but a lot of people ignore it. The Freebox from the French internet provider Free offers a print server function. This means that you can connect your USB printer to the back of your ADSL box. Most printers are supported, although some users have reported certain dysfunctions with major brands. Installing this is extremely simple.

Freebox1
 Freebox2



Under Windows, when adding a printer, you will need to add a local printer (and not network), creating a new port “standard TCP/IP Port”. The printer name and port name must be set as “mafreebox.freebox.fr” without the quotation marks.

 Freebox3  Freebox4



At the next step you will need to fill in additional port information. From here you the port type is “Generic Network Card”. After this has been done then the final step in the installation is of the drivers!

 Freebox5  Freebox6


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