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|    Grant Taylor to gro...@cyberdude.com    |
|    Re: LANing over a home fiber router    |
|    20 Jul 20 14:30:23    |
      From: gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net              On 7/19/20 10:32 PM, gro...@cyberdude.com wrote:       > I have a standard FTTH router which came with my net connection,       > i.e. whatever my ISP has given me, it's not bought. If TWO laptops       > are connected to it OVER WIFI, can they share files between em,       > assuming a pretty out-of-the-box Linux installation?              You should be able to.              > What about sharing a printer, ie. if ONE laptop has one there,       > you can print from the other one? What do I need, this "SMB" thing,       > or NFS or what??              I would think that LPD or CUPS would be sufficient to allow printing       across the network.              > I'm vaguely curious as to whether this can be done with out-the-box       > WINDOZE as well, but not really :)              Yes, this should be relatively trivial to do on Windows as Windows has       installed the necessary software by default for about 20 years.              > Thanks.              You're welcome.                            --       Grant. . . .       unix || die              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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