This chapter provides guidelines for setting up and sharing printers on an Advanced Server network. Although printer setup is simple, it is worth taking time to understand the various options available for configuring printers. By carefully planning printer access, you can maximize the use of each printer and avoid printing delays.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Advanced Server printing offers the following features:
Clients can browse the network for available network printers. The browsing function is available from Network Neighborhood, the Add Printer Wizard, and even more conveniently, from the Print Setup dialog box of Windows NT and Windows 95 applications.
Clients can browse the network for printer servers running other operating systems. For example, you can browse the network for LAN Manager 2.x print servers and connect to print shares on these servers. In this case, the client computer prompts you to install the appropriate printer driver locally, if it is not already present.
As an administrator, you can administer Advanced Server print servers, printers, documents, and printer drivers remotely.
As an administrator, you do not have to install printer driver files on Windows NT and Windows 95 client computers to enable them to use an Advanced Server print server. If all printing clients are running Windows NT or Windows 95, it only is necessary to install printer driver files in one place — at the Advanced Server print server.
Clients can print to all networked UNIX system printers.
This section discusses the following topics:
