OK, help. I got a new work computer. (Lexmark X204n to be precise). I have installed it on my work computer and my laptop. It has an ethernet port. I hooked it up to my system (my house is wired with ethernet, randomly).

I can't, however, figure out how to print to it from either computer if that computer isn't USB connected.

I tried various different settings on my Mac (OS 10.6.?), and managed to get it to SEE the thing, but as a "this is hooked up to the WinXP computer", and when I try to print to it, it says some sort of "access denied" type language.

Anyone help?

Okay, it sounds like it's an authorization issue on the printer itself. Is the printer shared on the network? Can you get to a control panel screen on the printer, possibly by bringing up the printer's ip address in your browser?

My question is: I know it's possible to use Adobe Digital Editions to authorize multiple computers and multiple ereaders to read DRM protected EPUB files. But is it possible to have a single ereader authorized to multiple Adobe Digital Editions accounts? i.e., could I have files authorized to me readable on the SO's Nook and vice versa?

I'm trying to figure out how to *give* him the content that he purchased back in the dark days when we had only one Nook between the two of us, which now still resides on my original e-ink Nook (which he can pry out of my cold dead hands) but needs to live on his shiny but backlit Nook Color. Plus he needs to read the Hunger Games trilogy I just bought, but I need it back afterwards! Although at less than four bucks for the whole trilogy I suppose I could just buy him his own copies.

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Thanks Liese--I'm not sure if it's shared on the network? I may have to go poke at some buttons on the printer or something? How would I find its IP address?

I have only ever done the Adobe DE stuff with the "multiple computers/one account" part, not the other way around. (But this thread from a couple years ago says no...not sure if anything's changed)

The manual (PDF) says there's printer setup/control software. Does that recognise the printer? It also says you can print a network setup page.

Oh, sure, tell me to RTFM. :)

I suppose I'll have to take a look this weekend and possibly change what I've installed from the disc onto my computer.

Okay, that answers my question, even if the answer is "no." But I suppose he can muddle through and read on my old e-ink Nook.

Anyway, yeah, there probably is something you can do with the installation process. And oh, it's *not* actually hooked up to a WinXP computer, right? It's directly to the network through ethernet? But it does work if it is hooked up to a computer?

Is there somewhere you go to maintain your network? Like a router control page? Mine (Belkin) is 192.168.2.1 and then from there I can figure out where which DHCP licenses have been handed out and work out which one is my printer. Which I think is, like, 192.168.2.8, so I enter that into my browser and then I can get into my printer's configuration stuff.

I do have a router page and was looking at it earlier trying to figure out what was what (it listed my ipad and my iphone...and two things I didn't recognize (I'm hoping/assuming the printer and the work computer)...but not my laptop I was looking at it from!). I'll try the IP address thing!

It's currently USB to the WinXP computer, because I needed to print lots of work things. But it's also hooked in to the ethernet.

But that way you have to know what the MAC address of your printer is to work out which one it is, or click on all the MAC addresses if your DHCP server software does a lookup...

Printing a network setup page should only be a few clicks deep. And the printer control software might have a discovery function on it--the software that came with my HP finds it on the network and reports its IP address.

It's currently USB to the WinXP computer, because I needed to print lots of work things. But it's also hooked in to the ethernet.

It might be best to unplug the USB before you start troubleshooting the network.