Re: Wireless Print Server - Without Connecting to Router or PC
- From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:34:05 GMT
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:41:15 +0100, Mark McIntyre
<markmcintyre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
You're not really looking for a "wireless print server". What you
really want is a "wireless printer client",
Eh? He wants a decide he can plug into a printer, connect to the
existing wireless network ,and share the printer. Thats a wireless
printserver surely?
Well, I'll admit that it's hair splitting. If the print box logs into
the wireless router, then it's a "wireless print client". If the
clients log into the print box, it's a "wireless print server". I
probably shouldn't have mentioned it and just called everything a
server.
Unfortunately, the industry likes to call everything a print server,
no matter how it's connected.
Ah, I see, you're using personal naming conventions...
Guilty as charged. I'm into creativity this week.
Note that the wireless setup is really that of a client, not a server.
Well, its serving print services to clients elsewhere on the network.
Its a server as far as I'm concerned.
Ok, I give up. It's a print server. Print client sounds funny
anyway.
If you take your naming route, then *every* device is a client, even
the router, since its a client of the modem, or of some DHCP server,
which is in turn a client of some other device etc etc etc...
Yup. If all it did was connect, then that would be true. Where we
get into trouble is where the device has two functions. Strictly
speaking, it's a "wireless bridge client" in the same box as a
"Windoze print sharing server". At least it's not an acronym.
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