Section 5: Setting Up Windows Workstations

Peer-to-Peer vs. Windows for Workgroups and Windows 3.1 users printing to a Client-Server Printing network printer in peer-to-peer mode need to install the AXIS Print

Utility for Windows software on their workstations. Users can then add the network printer to their systems and use the printer as if it were connected directly to their workstations.

Peer-to-peer printing has the following advantages:

•You can monitor the printer status at all times and be notified when a print job is complete.

•You don’t have to rely on a server.

Client-server printing requires that only one user install the AXIS Print Utility for Windows software on his workstation. This user then adds the printer to his or her workstation (the server) and shares the printer with other users on the network. Client workstations use Windows Print Manager to connect to the printer.

Client-server mode provides a way of maintaining queue ordering and job priority. It has the following disadvantages:

•You cannot receive printer status or print job notification.

•The workstation set up as the server must be available at all times. It must also have the capacity to handle the print jobs that pass through it.

Notes: ❏ Client workstations in a client-server environment can still choose to install AXIS Print Utility for Windows and print directly to the network printer in peer-to-peer mode.

❏The server workstation should be running Windows for Workgroups.

Windows 3.1 You must have network software, such as IBM LAN Server or LAN Manager Workstation, installed before you can print to a network printer from a Windows 3.1 workstation. If this software is already installed, proceed as described in Windows for Workgroups below.

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