First question before going further:
Are you using a router???

Jay

JH>My Christmas present was a new Dell Dimension E521. Pretty nice, but
JH>uses USB for peripheral devices, including mouse, keyboard, and printer.

JH>I do have one printing device here with USB support, but my sweet wife
JH>wants it to be over there on _her_ computer. My other printers here all
JH>use parallel port.

JH>I've found USB to Parallel adapter cables for sale at Ebay fairly
JH>reasonably priced.

JH>Anything I particularly need to look out for?

JH>Will I be able to just hook up one of my parallel port printers to the
JH>computer via the cable, and have WinXP-Media center recognize it and the
JH>printer work OK?

JH>FWIW, my first candidate printers for this are HP Laserjet 4L and 6L.

JH>- - -  JimH.

JH>... Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're _not_ out to get you.
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