Tharin,
I was going to offer "Get Intel nics!" until I finished the 1st
paragraph. Now that I read the whole picture, I can offer no help. I know
zip about wireless......
I do understand what the teachers wish, yet have no idea how to get to
crescentic solution.
Yes, you always bring really good puzzles.......... :)
Best,
Duncan
At 13:42 01/15/2008 -0800, you wrote:
Hey guys, just began a new project this week and I thought I'd try and
pick the brain of the collective. I'm going to be helping out a small
charter school in my town and need to get most of their IT needs in order
and very quickly. They received some generous grants and bought lots of
desktops and laptops and what not but it has not been rolled out in an
organized fashion yet. No domain, active directory, group policies,
antivirus protection, web filtering, etc. As usual I come into the picture
after all or most of this money has been spent and the equipment has
already been purchased. ::sigh::
One interesting problem is that the teachers each have their own laptop
and they go from classroom to classroom. The students stay put. I informed
the head of the faculty that I will need to install the drivers and what
not for the network printers onto each of the teachers laptops so that the
teachers can start printing. Since the teachers move around they won't be
printing to the same printer all the time, they will need to print to the
one that is physically closer to them. I figured I would just install the
printers and name them based on their physical location. When a teacher
would need to print something, they would choose the appropriate printer
from their printer list first then hit the print button. Simple, yes? Well
they think this might be too complicated for their teachers. They want to
hit print and automagically have the computer route the print job to the
nearest printer instead. I have no idea how to do this.. well I suppose
one could
have something that sensed which wireless access point their notebook
was connected to then based on that route it to the nearby printer but I
still wouldnt know how to do that...
So have any of gurus on here done something like this? Or should I tell
them to suck it up and learn how choose a printer from the six that are
available? :)
-Tharin Olsen
