Subj : Files on LAN.
To   : JEAN PARROT
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Fri Jul 02 2004 04:39 pm

Hello JEAN,

    Responding to a post in the LAN area:
    On Friday July 02 2004 at 09:32,
    JEAN PARROT [1:123/140] wrote to GERALD MILLER,
    about: Files on LAN.

 JP>> I lost my LAN. Why ? I have not found out yet. I can not
 JP>> see the remote laptop anymore but I can print from the router.
 JP>         Problem solved as I mentione to you yesterday. I can still
 JP> print on the TCP/IP port from the wired systems ( Class 5 cable both )
 JP> but not yet from the WLAN. Still looking into it.

Don't you just love it when computers operate the way they want instead of
the way you want...  ;-]

 GM>> I used to be able to print a file from the W98SE to the Canon
 GM>> i550 (which is set up on the XPP)....  I'll have to give it a try
 GM>> out again, sometime soon.
 JP>         Printing via the network is fine but it entails keeping the
 JP>  system where the printer is attached, ON. As I leave the router live
 JP>  24/7, I want to be able to print via the WLAN. No success yet even if
 JP> I "see" it all.

In my case, there is a setting for remote power on for the printer if XPP
is offline.  It works great (or at least it used to -- still haven't tried
to print anything from W98SE when XPP is down)...

 GM>> Seems to me, I recall a vague message that WfW311 requires
 GM>> SHARE.EXE to be loaded for networking...  Can you or anyone else
 GM>> provide more details?
 JP>         Not me.

Pity.

           Cheers ... Gerald

.... When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.
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