From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: February 22, 2006
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: shareing a printer
>
> Leo,
> --------------
> Here is my situation. The office I work in wants to set up
> one printer that wireless laptops can use to print to
> wirelessly. We now have a wireless network and are
> encouraging the agents to bring in their laptops if they have
> them but we want them to use a printer we provide to them but
> they must use it wirelessly. Also, is there software or
> another way to log how many printouts each user makes?
Sounds like you just want to set up a normal wireless network,
and then have a printer on some desktop machine on that network
shared for everyone to use. Nothing special about it really,
it'd be the same as the network outlined in this article:
http://ask-leo.com/how_should_i_set_up_my_home_network.html
only with more machines, and a printer on one machine shared.
I believe that you can track who's printed by looking at the
event log of the machine that hosts the printer.
http://ask-leo.com/what_is_the_event_viewer_and_should_i_care.html
I'm not aware of any tools that would scan it automatically for
specifically those events, though.
Thanks for asking,
Leo
Article 1087
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Networking
