Review on 🖨️ Enhance Network Printing Efficiency with Buffalo Network USB 2.0 Print Server - LPV3-U2 by Matt Vanlaere

If you're not using Windows and you need to configure this thing manually, you're in for serious trouble if all you have is the Buffalo documentation (I use that term very loosely) and their software to install You can rely on that I use Unix (OpenBSD) on my machines, but some of them are available to dual boot with Windows XP. So my first approach was to download Windows and use their installer. I am using static IPs on my LAN without a DHCP server available on the LAN. The default IP address of the print server is 192.168.11.222, so I changed the IP address of the Windows machine's static network connection to 192.168.11.223 and the netmask to 255.255.255.0. I was able to connect to the print server with a web browser using the default IP address so the browser could see the print server. But Buffalo's Windows installer couldn't find the device. So we come to plan B, the manual configuration via the web interface. I just said I was able to connect through the browser, but the pile of paper they call the manual doesn't tell you that if you do that, the first thing that will happen is that you'll be presented with a dialog , which will ask you for a username and password (fairly standard for this type of device). It also doesn't tell you what the default username and password are! So I had to do a little detective work (how could we ever live without the internet and search engines?) and stumbled across the good work of John S. Lyon Smith in providing this vital information in his review of this Revain product. Barrier with login/password, setting up the server manually wasn't difficult and the box seems to be working. I hooked up a Brother HL-2140 and was able to print successfully from one of my Unix systems running cups. So if you're using Linux and Cups, you should be fine. I used an IPP/http connection. Therefore, this product works after raising your blood pressure during the installation process. If you have anything other than a fully vanilla Windows installation (and by vanilla I mean not using static IPs and the DHCP server is visible to the print server), be prepared to wrestle with that thing a bit to make it work. and it will only be "a little" if you know what you're doing.