In the UNIX world, you can place a printer anywhere without having a PC attached to it, you just string a serial line to the printer. Can the same be done in the Novell world? In other words, do all printers in a Netware environment have to be attached to a PC?
Many printers now have the ability to use either an internal print server adapter card or an external print server, both of which connect directly to the network.
> In the UNIX world, you can place a printer anywhere without having > a PC attached to it, you just string a serial line to the printer. > Can the same be done in the Novell world? > In other words, do all printers in a Netware environment have to > be attached to a PC?
At UHH we use Intel's Netport II which has an ethernet port on it and responds to Novell queues. We also recently bought HP's JetDirect Card which connects a laser printer on the network via thinnet or 10BaseT. Neither solution requires a PC. Getting the PC out of the printing loop is why we bought them. The Netport II cards have been working quite well for over a year now and I have complete faith in HP equipment.
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On Wed, 1 Jun 1994, Parker, Jeffrey R. wrote: > Hello All,
> In the UNIX world, you can place a printer anywhere without having > a PC attached to it, you just string a serial line to the printer. > Can the same be done in the Novell world? > In other words, do all printers in a Netware environment have to > be attached to a PC?
You can also load pserver.nlm on the server and run the printer off of the serial or parallel port on the server (ala UNIX).
> Many printers now have the ability to use either an > internal print server adapter card or an external > print server, both of which connect directly to the > network.
> In the UNIX world, you can place a printer anywhere without having > a PC attached to it, you just string a serial line to the printer. > Can the same be done in the Novell world? > In other words, do all printers in a Netware environment have to > be attached to a PC?
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>In the UNIX world, you can place a printer anywhere without having >a PC attached to it, you just string a serial line to the printer. >Can the same be done in the Novell world? >In other words, do all printers in a Netware environment have to >be attached to a PC?
The answer is: heck, no! We don't have a single printer on our Netware network that is hooked to a pc. We have HP's with the Jet Direct cards and Compaq Pagemarqs with the NETLINQ option. Check out the HP 4si/MX. That's network ready. Just string a 10-base-T wire to the card...
> In the UNIX world, you can place a printer anywhere without having >a PC attached to it, you just string a serial line to the printer. > Can the same be done in the Novell world? > In other words, do all printers in a Netware environment have to >be attached to a PC?
Of course not, you just get a printer with a netware port built in. We have both Ethernet and Token Ring connections directly to HP laserjet printers on our network. You can also buy Intel ports that let you connect into the network line and connect a printer or 2 printers without using a PC.
