[mythtv-users] Way! OT Epson wless printer as NAS

[Francesco Peeters]

Matt Emmott wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:00 AM,  <bhaskins at chartermi.net> wrote:
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>> I recently bought a Epson NX515 wireless printer for my wife and found that it has a very nice side feature.
>> A inserted memory card is available to the net, allowing the card to be used as a small NAS unit.
>> The printer consumes six watts ( or less ) in standby.
>> There are no security concerns at all in my application of interest.
>> This would be just fantastic for me if I could just get it ( the NAS part ) working in Linux.
>> I can get the banner page under Linux and print to it using the driver from another Epson Linux driver
>> but this is the only Linux support that I can find so far.
>> Yep, so far I can only make the NAS work under XP and I only use the BSOS for games and such.
>> Can anyone hit/stomp/kick me in a direction to find some ideas to help make this work?
>> Thanks
>>
>> FWIW This unit is on sale for about half of it "normal" price for three more days
>>
>>     
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> How does your XP box connect to the storage on the printer? Do you
> install some kind of utility or is it SMB (i.e., Do you map a drive to
> it in Windows?)
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FWIW: I have an Epson P700W and that one just uses SMB for the sharing
part, AFAICT...

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Francesco