Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] Re: Accessing Printers

[Bruce T. <Bla...@Ea...>]

Well I guess if you consider an AppleTalk printer "not physically
connected", then yes.

I would say that as a rule any printer that is accessible to a computer
(server) in the Print Center can certainly be shared by that server simply
by turning on Printer Sharing under the Sharing System Preferences panel.

So, if you have one server on your network which has Appletalk and/or USB
connectivity to any number of printers, then that server can share those
printers for the benefit of the rest of the computers on your network. The
other computers need not have AppleTalk connectivity because the Jaguar
printer sharing is clearly done over IP. On the "other systems", don't
define any printers explicitly, simply note that all the shared printers
will magically pop up in the Print Center as soon as the print server shares
them.

I think that it is probably a good idea in general to reduce confusion on
the part of the printers to do this; that is to have one machine share all
the printers and the other systems use the shared printers instead of
defining printers themselves. Or not. It was just a thought.

Bruce Thomson


on 10/14/02 17:42, Patrick McNamara at pmc...@ma... wrote:

> 
> Can a printer be shared out if it's not physically connected to the
> computer doing the sharing?
> 
>> I do not believe (from what I read) that AppleTalk is supported when
>> using the WirelessDriver. However, if your desktop machine is also
>> running OSX Jaguar, simply share your printers from that machine and
>> then they will show up in the Print Center on your PowerBook G3. I did
>> this yesterday whilst fiddling with an Orinoco Gold card and
>> WirelessDriver installed on a PBG4 and it worked fine. I think there
>> are difficulties if the desktop machine is not also running Jaguar
>> since the print sharing seems to have changed. Go to System
>> Preferences > Sharing and click to enable Printer Sharing
> 
> 
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