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Date:	Sat, 6 Oct 2001 11:47:08 PDT
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Print Servers (SMC)

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Steve Carter wrote:

> Print server installation went smoothly, on both OS/2 and Windoze.
> Windoze 9x doesn't come with TCP/IP printing, so you have to install
> it from somewhere. SMC has it for their print server on their CD.
> If you also use a second print server, as I do, you may have to find
> other TCP/IP software to communicate with it.

How many print servers might one need ? Whenever I do set up the SMC I bought for others, I know they will have
one b&w laser printer, and one color inkjet, to be shared -- at will -- by two separate workstations. (Please
explain this at primer level, since I have only the vaguest notion of what a print server is, and how it
functions.) What sort of cabling is involved -- just more ethernet cable ? Can there be some sort of dual
connection, such that a workstation can _also_ directly drive a printer, as an alternative to using the network
printing ?

> I found an IBM package, in Japan, which fills the bill nicely, and allows up to (I think) 16
> different print servers to be defined, more than enough for me.
> I've come to embrace network printing, even for my two computers.
> I networked my new Xerox (N)C20 printer within an hour of first
> assembling the pieces. I'm a convert!

In case I may need this s/w package (for W98, what they are running), where do I obtain it ?

TIA.

Jordan

P.S. : No one quoted me that full addressing line, including the "88" for Netscape.

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