Hi Jumlong! How do you share a printer peer-to-peer? There are more clients than printers in the shop, so every printer will be shared to several clients.
TIA Joel from the middle of the Rain Forest -----Mensagem original----- De: Jumlong Anunta-umporn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: NT 2000 Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Data: Sexta-feira, 12 de Outubro de 2001 05:23 Assunto: Re: About printers and the network >Hi, > >If a printer is shared peer-to-peer, the print job won't go to the central >server. > >/JLA > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Joel Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: NT 2000 Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 12:20 AM >Subject: Re: About printers and the network > > >> Hi John! >> >> Thanks for your answer, and let me explain better: yes, each shop has >> several printers, each printer is connected to a pc, and shared via the >> network. But a printer is intended to be used only by clients in the same >> shop, id est, each client in the shop points to some printer in the same >> shop as the default printer. What I want to know is if a report sent to a >> printer which is not physically attached to this client has to travel to >> the central server and return to the printer in the shop or not. As I said >, >> someone told me since Windows95 the OS knows how to solve it locally, >> without going to the server. >> >> TIA >> >> Joel >> from the middle of the Rain Forest >> -----Mensagem original----- >> De: John Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Para: NT 2000 Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Data: Quinta-feira, 11 de Outubro de 2001 13:15 >> Assunto: RE: About printers and the network >> >> >> >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] >> > >> >> >> ------ >> 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] > ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
