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Printer Sharing through SMC Barricade Router.

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ChangisKhan

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Hi. I have an old printer (NEC Superscript 860) and it is connected to SMC barricade Router. 2 computers are connected to the router, Main PC is running win2k and the other running win98se. What i want to know is that is it possible for win2k PC to use the printer since Superscript 860 doesn't have the drivers for it. Thankx in advance.
 
I don't think that it would work. In the manual included on the cd, the steps needed to install a printer state that the driver for printer needs to be present for the PRT mate to work properly. I read the manual a couple of times today. My printer died and I was trying to make sure I didn't misinstall something, so am pretty sure about this issue.

Since the printer is networked the driver still needs to be installed on the machine in question. You are not installing the printer driver for each type of machine on your network on to your barricade router. You are only installing software that allows the print jobs to sent to an ip address(networked.)
hope this helps.

kingink
 
Does the NEC emulate any other printers? I had a similar problem with an old Okidata laser and found that it would emulate an HPII+.
 
You could try installing the printer on the 98 box, then the SMC prtmate. Then share the printer out from the 98 box. It works on my 2000 server box, I just install the printer on that, then share it out. It shows up in network neighborhood. It'll probably do the trick.
 
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