I have an old USB web cam and a Netgear WGPS606 wireless print server 
offering 4 wired LAN ports and 2x USB ports.

The USB ports are intended to allow 2x USB printers to be accessible 
from the LAN, via wifi and the 4x LAN ports for PC's. You may remember 
I used 1 of the 4 wired ports to allow an HP4000 to be used wirelessly 
a few weeks ago via this server.

I now want to experiment with the possibilities of the USB ports on the 
server. I have a USB camera plugged in right now - has anyone any idea 
how I might progress further and perhaps see if any pictures are 
available via this camera and the server?

The camera works perfectly via a direct USB connection to the PC, but I 
have no idea how to check it via the server plus the wifi. I thinking 
eventually of a USB weather station being (hopefully) able to place 
it's data on my LAN, accessible to all my PC's.



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Regards,
        Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

"Harry Bloomfield"  wrote in message 
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>I have an old USB web cam and a Netgear WGPS606 wireless print server 
>offering 4 wired LAN ports and 2x USB ports.
>
> The USB ports are intended to allow 2x USB printers to be accessible from 
> the LAN, via wifi and the 4x LAN ports for PC's. You may remember I used 1 
> of the 4 wired ports to allow an HP4000 to be used wirelessly a few weeks 
> ago via this server.
>
> I now want to experiment with the possibilities of the USB ports on the 
> server. I have a USB camera plugged in right now - has anyone any idea how 
> I might progress further and perhaps see if any pictures are available via 
> this camera and the server?
>
> The camera works perfectly via a direct USB connection to the PC, but I 
> have no idea how to check it via the server plus the wifi. I thinking 
> eventually of a USB weather station being (hopefully) able to place it's 
> data on my LAN, accessible to all my PC's.

In the context of a network print server's USB port connecting to a printer, 
in my experience this relies on the printer driver knowing how to send data 
to a networked printer; either using the LPR protocol, or there being a 
print server driver that knows how to translate information to the USB port. 
Many USB printers therefore do not work this way.

You could try the http://www.belkin.com/networkusbhub/ which appears to 
extend several USB ports across an ethernet connection.  I have seen this 
work with a Sharp printer which could not be driven from a print server.

Does the webcam have a driver that enables it to work when directly 
connected to the PC's USB port?  Does that driver allow the selection of 
alternative ports - e.g. the print server?

-- 
Graham J