TROY Group 100S manual Installing the Hardware, Introduction

Section 1 Installing the Hardware

Introduction

TROY external print servers allow multiple host computers to share virtually any type of printer or plotter on a high-speed local area network (LAN). The PocketPro 100S is a compact low-cost Ethernet print server designed to connect a printer with a parallel port to an Ethernet (10baseT) or Fast Ethernet (100baseT) network.

You can print jobs on a printer or plotter connected to a TROY external print server as if the printer or plotter were attached directly to your computer. No special software is required on the host computers, and application programs run without any modification. Because the TROY PocketPro 100S provides multiprotocol capabilities, users on UNIX, Novell, AppleTalk, LAN Server, Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 95/98/ME, and LAN Manager computers can simultaneously access the same printer. The following diagram illustrates how TROY external print servers are used in a typical network.

PocketPro 100S Administrator’s Guide -- Document #40165-110 Rev. A 1-1