Toshiba manual Installing the GA-1120 as a shared printer

22-5 GA-1120 on a TCP/IP network with Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP

Installing the GA-1120 as a shared printer

The first step in creating a printer is installing the printer driver files, which give your applications access to printer features. You can use the installation instructions in the User Software Installation Guide for every workstation that will print directly and independently to the GA-1120. However, if you are an administrator running a Windows NT 4.0/2000 server, or Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP computer, you can also create a printer and share it with clients on the network. This allows clients who do not have permission to establish an independent network connection to the GA-1120 to print through the server.

You can specify sharing of the printer during installation of the GA-1120 printer files. If you have not yet installed the GA-1120 printer files on the Windows NT 4.0/2000 print server computer, do so now, following the instructions in the User Software Installation Guide. During installation, enter the information necessary to share the GA-1120.

If you have already installed the GA-1120 printer files on the computer you are using as an NT 4.0/2000 print server, see your Windows documentation for information about sharing the GA-1120.

If more than one GA-1120 print connection is published (for example, if both the Print queue and the Hold queue are published), you may want to create a printer for each print connection, so you and other users can print to each connection directly. When prompted to specify the printer name, enter a name that indicates the GA-1120 print connection.

Configuring clients of a Windows NT 4.0/2000 server

Each client of a Windows NT 4.0/2000 server is already using a network protocol to communicate with the server. Each client can print to the GA-1120 if it has been shared by a Windows NT 4.0/2000 server, or Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP computer. In that case, the client does not have to use the same network protocol to connect to the Windows NT 4.0/2000 server as the server uses to communicate with the GA-1120.