Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!quimby From: quimby@madoka.its.rpi.edu (Quimby Pipple) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: CAN ANYONE HELP WITH A PRINTER SHARING PROBLEM???? Message-ID: <938k43-@rpi.edu> Date: 14 Jun 91 02:56:53 GMT References: <13028@uwm.edu> Reply-To: quimby@mts.rpi.edu Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: madoka.its.rpi.edu jal@acc.flint.umich.edu (John Lauro) writes: >I would recommend putting in a Campus network, and some Novell servers. >If that's not possible, don't expect to pay more than $200 unless the >switch has buffering. I seem to recall seeing a two in, two out switch >box for under $100. That would work fine, if Novell were more than a client/server network. Local shared printers with Novell is somewhat mickey mouse, and requires additional third party TSR software. It would make more sense, and cost much less money, to simply put in a network that had the normal network features built in. Novell's strength is server file security. Quimby -- quimby@mts.rpi.edu, quimby@rpitsmts.bitnet