Re: TCP/IP Connection software

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

I was referring to our own ignorance.

Rob Berendt
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>From: rob@dekko.com
>(snip)
>We have no local printers.  All of our printers are network attached -
>ethernet.  This way all PC's can easily share them, and they can be
>configured directly on the 400 also.
>
>But back in the bad old days of twinax you could do some weird stuff with
>Client Access.  Like configure a local printer as a system printer.  Then
>other PC's could print to that system printer and get stuff to print on
>that printer.  When you have an AS/400 mindset and are ignorant of the PC
>capabilities, or had DOS pc's, it worked.
>(snip)

Rob, that's a rather condecending attitude. While I agree that network
attached printers provide more flexibility, some shops are probably too
small to convert all of their PC-attached printers over. So going with
Client Access (or some other emulator vendor) is a matter of practicality,
not "ignorance."

To address the question, we have a mix of PC-attached and HP JetDirect
network-attached printers. We use Client Access Express to configure
PC-attached printers and we use remote writers to print directly to the
networked ones. On the Mac side, we've used MochaSoft.

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