Printserver serving multiple(2) networks

[willemjacobusse]

We have a small office with two network, one connected to the internet, the other strictly for internal use. I would like to be able to share a printer between the two networks. Was thinking about using a wireless printserver, hooked up to the one network with a cable and to the other through the wireless. Got a Linksys wireless printserver, but alas it does not allow both connections to be used simultaneuously. Is there a printserver out there that can?

[willemjacobusse]

Wassup??
Am I asking for the impossible?

[willemjacobusse]

Anybody have anything to say about this??

HELP!!!!!

[M_Six]

I don't know of a stand-alone print server that will do that. (Not saying such a thing does not exist, though.) But if you have an older PC around, you can install two nics in it and put each nic on a separate network. Hook the printer to the PC and share it that way to both networks.

[GroundZero3]

yah i havent seen any two port printer servers. (that can assign different ip addresses to each port)

Follow m_six suggestion

[willemjacobusse]

what i try to avoid is a direct link between the two networks. Wldnt that computer create a link between the two networks? A link that a virus or hacker cld exploit maybe?

[M_Six]

Not if you don't bridge the connections or set the PC up as a router. You don't need one network to talk to the other. You just need a PC that can talk to both, but not pass traffic.

[GatorBait]

I don't know if this will help your particular situation, but this is the print server I use. It has 2 parallel and 1 usb port for 3 printers connected to it at once. Each port is assigned its own name, but I only use the 2 parallel ports at the moment. I have a monochrome laser printer on one port, and a color inkjet on the other, and can print to both at the same time from any of the 4 PC's on my network. I use the wired version located at this address : http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=166 and have had no problems with it. They also have a wireless version with 2 USB and 1 parallel port at this address : http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=336

*edited for clarity*

[willemjacobusse]

i am sure it works fine with multiple printers.
But what i want is multiple networks

[M_Six]

I can't think of any other way other than a PC print server with two nics. I once had two separate networks at my house (one wireless, one wired) and the only way I could print from my PC on the wired network to the printer on the wireless print server was to put two nics in my PC and hard wire to both routers.

It wouldn't take much of a PC to act as a print server either. Some old PII with 256MB RAM should work fine.