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Skriven 2006-11-22 21:18:00 av ED VANCE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av ROBERT FOWLER
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RF> Having routers and a LAN card hardly solve the problem.  I think someone
RF> has mislead you into believing that a network connection can substitute
RF> for the physical connection conflict (USB vs parallel), while allowing
RF> several machines to all share the same printer.

RF> As has been recently pointed out (in this thread?), machines running
RF> versions of Windows that are not NT class, must have the Windows
RF> drivers installed on them, in order to print from Windows to a shared
RF> printer.

RF> The driver for the CX3810 is 98SE/ME/2000/XP.  I don't see it working
RF> for Win95, and I'm absolutely certain it can't work with Win3.1.
RF> That alone assures that you can't print from Windows from either your
RF> Win95 laptop or your 486 box to the CX3810, network or otherwise.

RF> Printing from DOS is possible from the Win95 laptop over the network
RF> using the NET USE command.  Note though, that NET USE is part of
RF> NET.EXE, which was not included with any versions of DOS prior
RF> to Win95.  That may present a problem for your 486 box.

Thanks Robert,

Appreciate all the information.

On the 486 DOS/Win3.1 box I use a Canon BJC-610 parallel printer.

IIRC it came with W95 drivers called the Windows Printing System (WPS)
software.
I use the WPS software on the Win3.1 box now.

I believe I have had it connected to the W95 box before, not sure tho.

It will be a learning experience fooling around with all this older
stuff with a router.
Maybe I'll learn something.   ;-]


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