Subj : WinXP
To   : JEFF GUERDAT
From : Gerald Miller
Date : Fri Sep 23 2005 02:23 pm

Hello JEFF,

    Responding to a post in the WIN95 area:
    On Friday September 23 2005 at 06:49,
    JEFF GUERDAT [1:123/140] wrote to GERALD MILLER,
    about: WinXP

 GM>> Win2K and WinXPP are at home on the switch and working quite well,
 GM>> thank you.  I presume this box _should_ work also when I swap out
 GM>> the DOS HDD and insert the W98SE HDD (don't want to take down my
 GM>> Fidonet mailer until the weekend)...

 JG> If everything is working fine now without needing to resort to
 JG> manually setting speeds and duplex, you'll be fine.  It's a hardware
 JG> thang.

"If it ain't broke, don't 'fix' it!"  ;->)

 GM>> I imagine I may have some ordeals when I remove the printer
 GM>> hardware from the parallel port, but I'm not going to loose sleep
 GM>> over it until it comes time to install the print server.

 JG> I've had to be, ummm, resourceful when dealing with some printers on
 JG> the network.  We had an HP inkjet that was desired to be shared but
 JG> the drivers didn't support networkng.  That meant I had to load the
 JG> driver on each computer and lie that it was attached to LPT1.  After
 JG> the installation, I then created a new local port which was actually
 JG> the network address (\\<server>\<share>) which worked fine.  A bit of
 JG> a pain but it worked.

Ouch.  I was thinking that I would have to use the "Add/Remove Hardware"
applet (on WinXPP) to 'disconnect' the printer from LPT1.  I may also have
to go into Control Pannel -> Printer and Faxes to delete the printer there
(if removing the hardware doesn't remove the printer drivers).  Then, there
is the possibility that the hidden Canoni550 folder will have to have all
the attributes changed recursively and then delete the folder with
contents.  I'm wondering if I have to use RegEdit to remove all references
to Canon, Canoni550, etc.?

 GM>> One thing that I'm curious about: Will the print server have a MAC
 GM>> address?

 JG> Yup.  Each and every device that is attached to the network *must*
 JG> have a hardware (MAC) address that uniquely identifies the attachment.

I had my suspicions that was the case, but you know, search as I might, I
could NOT find a hardware (MAC) address for the D-Link DSS-5+ switch (at
least, my Router configuration manager is not providing one)...

           Thanks ... Gerald

.... I'd like a small nuclear reactor as a kitchen appliance.
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