Hello,
This is probably a very noob thing to ask, but my searches through google have not shown me what I need to know…I’m hoping someone here can help me out.
I have a small network of 10 PC’s running Windows XP and 1 Windows 2003 server. The Server is used to store a database where a client on each Windows XP PC dumps data into this database.
I have 5 Printers throughout the office. 3 in one office, the other two printers are in separate offices at the back. I would like to have all 5 printers available to any PC on the network. We have 3 external print servers where one of the print servers have 3 ports on it to connect the three printers in one office. So I’ll connect the printers to the print servers and connect the printers to our network through switches. I’ll assign a static IP to each print server…this I can figure out.
My problem is, how do I configure each printer to be available to any PC on the network? I’ve heard there is a wizard in Windows 2003 that will help me setup each printer. Do I install each printers driver on Windows 2003 that will allow any XP PC to print, or does each Windows XP PC need to have all 5 printer drivers installed on them to be able to use each printer?
One of my Windows XP PC’s is a virtual machine running on the Windows 2003 server…will the setup of printers be the same for this virtual XP image or do I have to have the printer attached to the Windows 2003 PC in order to work?
Am I allowed to add three print servers to my network, or is this not going to work?
Thanks in advance for any help you may give.
Charles.
