Re: Add Printer on Win XP

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From: Graham A. Patterson (grahamp@econ.berkeley.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 13:14:32 PDT

Assuming this is Win XP Pro, and you are an administrator, a printer
mounted directly to the network is installed as a local printer. Run the
wizard and create a TCP/IP port. Add the IP address, and you come back to
the installation dialog (with the network port in place of LPT1), and
you get the chance to install the driver.

Personally I'd try and use a print server (a PC) to talk to the printer,
and get the clients to see the printer via the server. This gives you a
couple of benefits: a common print queue *, and an easy method of changing
the printer location (or pooling printers) without running around a lot of
workstations. The downside is having to cope with a non-functioning print
server. 8-(

* I have print queues with varying properties going to my network printers
- known slow applications print to spool a first, print later queue, while
fast applications can print after the first page has spooled.

Graham 

--
Graham Patterson, NT/XP System Administration
Dept. of Economics, UC Berkeley (510)643-5397

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