>From what I understand, each regional office is on a LAN(I assume it to be at least 100Mbps), and only clients on that LAN would access the printers located in that regional office. Then why worry about the traffic that would go to the server?! Having a print server would have the advantage of better manageability and you can have logon scripts connect to the print server on the local LAN. But, I don't think Windows itself has the intelligence to judge which printer to use.
Cheers, Govind. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jumlong Anunta-umporn Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 10:22 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: Re: About printers and the network Hi, http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/usingwindows/work/articles/906Jun/Sharepr inter.asp /JLA ----- Original Message ----- From: Joel Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NT 2000 Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2001 6:36 PM Subject: Re: About printers and the network > 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. 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