Network printing

[netey]

Hi, <br>I am running Win 98 clients and NT workstation clients on a NT and Netware 3x network with Client services for NetWare installed on the workstations and 98 machines. Most of the printers (10) are networked printers ran from a Novell server. How do I make those printers NT printers? My workstations and 98 clients only connect to the novell server for the printers. What is the process to convert the printers to NT? <br>

 

[rasindia]

There are two methodes to do it<br>1]Make one or two of your NT servers Printservers for the networked printers and make Novell use them as its own peint servers/or Install File and Print Services at the NT print server and configure it for Netware by sharing.<br>2]In the present situation Create the NT Gateway service connection in the NT server and make the Netware printers available to the NT users.<br>On both the cases you need to have common protocols to make proper communication between the Novell and NT servers.<br>&nbsp;

 

[Zelandakh]

You would be better off to scrap the Novell servers and use NT to print.<br><br>Assuming you have jet direct cards or similar in the printers, they should be visible to NT, particularly if you set them up as TCPIP. Add the relevant service (print via Appletalk if you want) and then hang them from NT.<br><br>It simplifies the process if you take Novell out of the equation.

 

[nicksheppard]

You don't actually say whether any of your NT machines are servers (I assume so) but if not you only get ten incoming network connections which might be a problem if you do a lot of printing.