I’ve had beautiful DLink DNS-343 NAS server for a few years now and I love it.\u00a0 It takes four drives, currently I have two 500 gb drives mirrored and two 1 tb drives mirrored.\u00a0 Everything goes on them, gets backed up, etc.\u00a0 Hook it up to the local router box and it just runs, dammit.\u00a0 Love it.<\/p>\n
So anyway I also have a great Brother multifunction laser networked printer\/fax\/copy\/scan the MFC-7440N.\u00a0 It’s monochrome, and is my main squeeze when it comes to most of my printing.\u00a0 Laser never ever clogs.\u00a0 Prints forever.\u00a0 I just hook it up to the local router box and it just runs, dammit.\u00a0 Love it.<\/p>\n
Both machines I just leave on.\u00a0 They power down, the power drain is compensated for easily by an incandescent I replaced with a CFL in a hall where quality light isn’t needed.\u00a0 When I need them, there they are waiting on the network.<\/p>\n
Sometimes though, I need to print out something fancy and in color.\u00a0 For this I have a Canon IP-4200 inkjet.\u00a0\u00a0 I like the Canon’s because the print heads are built into the cartridges — so if you ever clog, just put a new cartridge in.\u00a0 I had this problem all the time with an Epson, the heads were part of the machine not the cartridge and if you let the printer lay dormant for a month you spent four hours wasting paper and ink printing out test pages.\u00a0 If you put new heads in it solved nothing boy did that thing cost me a lot of money an time.<\/p>\n
And just for the record, I let this Canon sit 9 months without printing and it fired right up and made gorgeouos color photos — no head cleaning!!! Amazing.<\/p>\n
Well anyway, I used to hook the Canon, a USB printer, up to whatever computer I needed but I wanted it on the network.\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 The DNS-343 has a usb connection on the back just for that!\u00a0 (Or a UPS, if so inclined.)<\/p>\n
So I hooked up the printer, turned it on, and sure enough it showed on the DNS-343’s admin web site.\u00a0 But, I couldn’t access it from any computer!\u00a0 I tried and tried the prescribed formula:\u00a0 1.\u00a0 Install printer driver on computer 2.\u00a0 Add via the network, searching under workgroups.<\/p>\n
For whatever reason, however I have my local network setup, no computer would find the Canon.\u00a0 So I thought, maybe I can just directly add it with the ip and some Linux designation?<\/p>\n
Sure enough — all’s I had to specify was something like \/\/192.168.0.32\/lp<\/strong> and it found the printer.\u00a0 The IP address (or name, if you are so inclined) of the NAS and lp for the printer.\u00a0 The “lp” is the Linux symbolic link to the printer, if you were wondering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve had beautiful DLink DNS-343 NAS server for a few years now and I love it.\u00a0 It takes four drives, currently I have two 500 gb drives mirrored and two 1 tb drives mirrored.\u00a0 Everything goes on them, gets backed up, etc.\u00a0 Hook it up to the local router box and it just runs, dammit.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/10kdev.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}