You must create a share on one of the machines to the printer and then give each machine acess to that share.
Terrence Daniels -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jumlong Anunta-umporn Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 12:52 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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