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

Matt Emmott memmott at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 14:45:08 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:00 AM,  <bhaskins at chartermi.net> wrote:
> 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
>

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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