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[rarewolf]

In trying to best integrate my HP B9180 into our home network environment, I've attached the printer via USB to the D-Link DNS-323 NAS USB port for this purpose.  When I originally tried printing from all computers this worked fine.  However, today I'm wanting to configure its settings for Lightroom and Photoshop which are installed on my Macbook Air (OS X 10.7 Lion), which involves setting paper types, paper tray, etc ... but I am finding these options are not available(?)

It may be me and my unfamiliarity with printing via MacOS (ie, I've just switched to Mac from Windows XP), but I'm just not seeing options for changing 'Best' to 'Max DPI', 'Colorsync' versus 'Printer managed', and so on.  I can see the options associated with presets, but any ability to change these presets seem to be missing.  For example, no ability to pull down a list of options, no right-click options, and to "duplicate" a preset, presumably for editing and saving, is grayed out.

I suppose I could connect it directly to the Mac for troubleshooting, but I really do need for this printer to be available to all computers.

Any thoughts? ... Please advise ...

TIA & Cheerios from the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland   

[fordem]

Any "option" that requires "bidirectional" communication from the printer is not going to work - the print server is incapable of providing the "feed back" channel.

[rarewolf]

Any "option" that requires "bidirectional" communication from the printer is not going to work - the print server is incapable of providing the "feed back" channel.

Jeez Louise!!  Both USB and ethernet are 2-way capable -- who would have thunk the USB port on the DNS-323 would not support modern printers?  I guess I missed this in the documentation ...

The printer is ethernet capable, but very sensitive to the length of the cable ... which means I'll have to find room move it a bit closer to the switch

Thanks for making me aware!! 

[fordem]

Both USB & ethernet are 2-way capable - but the print server is a basic spool to disk, print from spool affair - and if your printer is ethernet capable, then it should work with any cable length up to 100 metres (approx 300 feet), so if it won't there's a problem with either the printer or the cable - if you find the cable length makes a difference, I would suspect a defective, possibly miswired cable.

As a general rule, if your printer is "network ready" that will be the best way to share it.