usb between two computers

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Gerald Dost

Is it possible to connect a win XP and a WIN 2000
computer to a usb hub to share printers.
 
sure. I think if you use a switch you can connect the
printer to the switch and the computers to the switch, but
that is just a because. The advantage would be that you
wouldn't need to have both computer working to use the
printer.

But computer to computer will work USB with a hub or
cross-over USB cable which has a hub in the muddle.


| Is it possible to connect a win XP and a WIN 2000
| computer to a usb hub to share printers.
 
Plugging two computers into the same hub is the same as if you try this with
an A to A USB cable. You'll short the two PCs' power supplies together,
possibly destroying one or both machines or causing a fire hazard. Even
there were no danger to the machines from the problem with two power
supplies, there still wouldn't be any way to get the two PCs talking to each
other, since USB doesn't support that particular kind of communication.
'Cross-over' USB cable doesn't have a hub in the middle, this is a bridge.
 
I stand corrected and thank you.


| Plugging two computers into the same hub is the same as if
you try this with
| an A to A USB cable. You'll short the two PCs' power
supplies together,
| possibly destroying one or both machines or causing a fire
hazard. Even
| there were no danger to the machines from the problem with
two power
| supplies, there still wouldn't be any way to get the two
PCs talking to each
| other, since USB doesn't support that particular kind of
communication.
| 'Cross-over' USB cable doesn't have a hub in the middle,
this is a bridge.
|
|
 
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