Your email wasn't 100% clear to me but it sounds like you have several shops on a WAN. Each shop has several printers. Are you printers standalone? Do they have their own IP address or are they connected to a PC? What you can do is setup a desktop to act as a print server. If each PC has it's own IP then you can setup ports for those IPs, add the printer and share it to the local shop. If you have printers that have to physically connect to PCs then you will have to share them out...If you have a combo do both. I hope this helped.
John -----Original Message----- From: Joel Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 4:32 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: About printers and the network Hi folks! I need a little help from my friends: we are a retailer group, with 20 shops administered by a mainframe. We are now installing Windows 2000 server in 3 Dell boxes ( a 6400 and two 2500) to administer a WAN which will replace the mainframe in the months to come. There will be no servers in the shops, only clients with Windows 98 and ME. The link we have to each shop is a 64K private line. We have something like 100 printers distributed in the shops, but until now the printing is done via the mainframe, and is just plain text. I am worried about the line speed, when we begin to change the printing from the mainframe to the WAN, with Delphi programs running on the clients. The printings will have lots of graphics, not only text, and if they have to go to the server and return to the client, I am afraid that will be too heavy a traffic. Someone told there is no reason to worry, because since Windows 95, windows know how to use the local printers, without going to the server. Can someone tell me if this is true? TIA Joel from the middle of the Rain Forest ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
