Printers

Hello mate,
It appears you have few printers configured under Server/clients and some directly connected to the network to print via TCP? Hence the appearance as u get.

Regards
FPatel

If the printers are connected directly to a computer via parrelle port then that printer is shared using that computers ip address. So the only way for the network to see that printer is via the computer it is connected to.

for computers that have a jetdirect card that allows them to plug directly into the network will be seen via ip address, also the jetdirect software will need to be installed on each clients machine. Because of this I like to install the software on the server and then have all the clients point to the server to print.

Hope this helps

The printers that are installed directly to the network, via RJ45 have a JetDirect card. You need to install the JetDirect software on each computer so that each computer can see the printer on the network. It is this software that allows the clients to see the networked printer. These printers are not dependent on host machines and can be seen on the network as stand-alone devices. (HP mainly uses JetDirect software for their network printers)

Printers connected directly to computers, via printer port, do not have an IP address. When a local machine shares a printer, it is seen on the network by that computers IP address. The printer is not a stand-alone device and can only been seen on the network by the computer that is hosting that printer. When other clients send a command to print, they are actually telling the host machine to print for them. If the host computer was off no one could print to that printer. That printer is dependant on the host machine for network sharing. Therefore, printers that are connected via printer port will always show up on the network under their host machine name.

So printers using that Jetdirect and its software will not show up under any computer, it will show as a stand-alone device. Printers that are connected directly to computer, via printer port, will only show up under that computer in the network Neighborhood.

Hope this helps.

What I have done to make things simple is I have scripted the printers in my log-in scripts. Soas a user signs on, regardless of what machine, that will always have the same printers to use.

It depends on how you set it up. In the dsettings dialogue, there's a check box which allows you to capture to a port. If you don't check any, then it just appears in the lower part.

Hope this helps.
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