OK I think I am following you. You have 3 printers in this location on 3 different computers attached with an LPT cable? In order to print to these, you need to install file and print sharing, then share out the attached printers. YOu then need to add these shared printers to the other computers 4 - 9. After you do this. The print jobs will go directly to the computer without accessing the WAN. The only way they would go to the server is if the server was hosting the printers. But since that is physically impossible with local LPT cables, then the only way to communicate to them is in the local subnet. Hope that helps.
-----Original Message----- From: Joel Cruz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 5:46 PM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: Re: About printers and the network Hi folks! Well, I supose I did not explain myself clearly. After all, english is only a second language. Let me try again: 1. I have a WAN with a central server, a Dell 2500, located in the central office. The server runs Windows 2000 and communicates with 20 shops via 64 K leased lines. I have no servers in the shops, only clients. 2. Let's suppose one of the shops has 9 clients pcs, running Windows 95/98/ME, and only three printers. Clients 1, 2 and 3 have each one a printer attached physically. Let's call them printers 1, 2 and 3. 3. For clients 1, 2 and 3, I know for sure the reports sent to the printer will not go to the central server, because each one has a printer attached. 4. Clients 4 and 5 use, as default printer, the printer 1. Clients 6 and 7 use printer 2 as default, and clients 8 and 9 use printer 3. What I want to know is: for those clients, the reports will go to the central server and return to the printer, or Windows know how to send them directly to the printers? I hope my question is clear now. TIA Joel from the middle of the Rain Forest -----Mensagem original----- De: Govindaraj Rangan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: NT 2000 Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Data: Segunda-feira, 15 de Outubro de 2001 19:29 Assunto: RE: About printers and the network >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/Sharep r >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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