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Connect USB Scanner and USB Printer via WiFi for home PC's
Hello All !
I am seeking for your advice in order to setup a configuration at home so that I could provide the ability to
- print on my old Samsung CLP-300 USB printer (no Wifi feature), and
- scan from my old Canon Lide 60 USB scanner (no wifi)
from the several Win10 computers I have at home -- those are not easily physically connected to those devices but are on Wifi.
I was thinking on some Rasberry Pi device to connect both printer and scanner to, and make them available via its Wifi to the PC's I have at home. Is that a crazy idea or has it a reasonable chance to work ? The aspect that scares me off quite a bit is the setup of these peripherals on the RasPi especially as some tailored Linux (Raspbian ?) is recommended and I seriously doubt to be able to find the adequate Linux drivers for my rather old peripherals... And I didn't buy the RasPi yet !
I could also use an old Win7 laptop as shared device I guess, but that would require managing that PC, power on/off, etc.
Thanks for your advice !