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From:	"Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
To:	<opendos AT delorie DOT com>
References:	<66247 DOT pgreuter AT teaser DOT fr>
Subject:	Re: changing maximal number of printers
Date:	Thu, 16 Nov 2000 15:43:26 -0700
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DOS is limited to three LPTs, LPT1, LPT2 and LPT3. When using shared
printers on a network, you need to share each printer and give each a name.
Then if you are logged on to the server, workstation or workgroup, you can
access those printers. If you have three computers and each have two
printers, each computer needs to share it's printers. Computer AAA could
have printers AAA1 and AAA2 for example. Computer BBB could have printers
BBB1 and BBB2, computer CCC could have printers MAIN and SPARE.

Thus you could have access to six printers on the above network. You could
also limit the number that can be shared and keep some for only access on a
particular computer. If you do share printers on a network, do not try and
access them directly as another user could be using a particular printer you
are accessing directly. All shared printers should be accessed by it's
network name.

You can also get serial printers and connect them to comm ports as well. As
far as I know, you can only have 3 printer ports and 4 comm ports with DRDOS
without special drivers for more. These drivers generally come with multi
serial port cards. I suppose the same would be true for parallel cards. But
with all the stuff already loaded into memory for a server, who needs more
drivers!:-)

Pat


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Greuter" <pgreuter AT teaser DOT fr>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 6:07 AM
Subject: changing maximal number of printers


> Hello
>
> I have added a new computer to my little network running DRDOS 7.02
> and PNW. It would be nice to add also a printer but currently there
> are already three printers installed.
>
> I remember dimly that there is somewhere a place or command to define
> the maximal number of printers ( limited normally at 3 )
>
>     but where is it ?
>
> Hoping that somebody can give me a hint.
>
> Kind regards
>
> --
>                             Peter Greuter
>                             E-mail   mailto:pgreuter AT teaser DOT fr
>                             Page Web http://www.teaser.fr/~pgreuter


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