Hitachi Koki USA DDC 35n user manual Installing the IPX Peer-to-Peer Printing Program

3.3 IPX Peer-to-Peer Printing Program

If the NIC does not see any Novell activity, it will use 802.2 on 802.3 as a frame type and will assign itself a network number of 0. The frame type and network number being used is shown on the status report.

Note

•If a NIC is being moved from a site that had active Novell to a site that does not, the unit should be reset to the factory default to clear the frame type and network number information.

3.3.1Installing the IPX Peer-to-Peer Printing Program

Use the following procedure for an automatic installation of the IPX Peer-to Peer printing Program. If the opening screen does not appear as described in step 1, follow the instructions for the manual installation procedure.

1.Insert the CD-ROM into your workstation’s CD-ROM drive. The opening screen appears automatically.

2.Click the CD-ROM Contents button to display the Introduction screen.

3.Click Installation/Configuration Programs located at the bottom of the Introduction screen.

4.Select the program that you want to install and follow the instruc- tions displayed on the screen.

You can use the following procedure to manually install the IPX Peer- to-Peer Printing program.

1.Insert the CD-ROM into your workstation’s CD-ROM drive.

2.Run the program. (In this example, we assume that drive D: is your workstation’s CD-ROM drive.)

D:\Ipx-P2p\Setup.exe

3.Follow the instructions that appear on the screen.

Once the redirector is installed, each printer on the network that sup- ports this Peer-to-Peer capability will appear as a Port under Printer. To use the Peer-to-Peer connection, create a logical printer using the driver installation program according to the instructions for your printer. Set up the printer as a LOCAL printer.

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