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Does Nighthawk support USB printers for sharing with Mac OS X?

blackburied
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Does Nighthawk support USB printers for sharing with Mac OS X?

I've read a lot of discussions here dating many years back to using the ReadyShare software on a Mac to use a USB printer attached to a Netgear Router, and many discussions saying that ReadyShare software (which doesn't run in current versions of OS X) is obsolete and the printer should just show-up when searching the network for printers... but it doesn't.

 

... aside: an HP 6MP attached via front USB to the Nighthawk router, router interface shows nothing but USB network storage features... nothing about printers.  Mac OS X rev 12.13.

 

As all discussions about using the Netgear routers for printer sharing are 2015 and earlier, I'm guessing Netgear doesn't support USB networked printers currently in Nighthawk routers?

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FURRYe38
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Re: Does Nighthawk support USB printers for sharing with Mac OS X?

You still have one. I had one of those. Good solid printer. 

Ya, not much support anymore for printers on routers. 

 

Your best option would be to find a HP JetDirect box to connect the printer too and connect the JetDirect box to the LAN. Thought you may find it hard to find something that takes parallel or small C connections these days. 

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