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Network Settings Chapter 3
Installing the printer (Windows NT 4.0)
1
On the
Start
menu, point to
Settings
and then click
Printers
.
2
Double-click
Add Printer
and install the printer. Make the new printer
the default printer.
See “2 Installing the Printer Driver” (p. 2-1) for details about how to in-
stall it.
3
Right-click the new printer icon and select
Properties
from the menu.
4
Display the
Ports
tab.
5
Click
Add Port
.
This displays a list of enabled port types.
6
Select
LPR Port
and then click
New Port
.
7
On the Add LPR compatible printer dialog box, type the IP address of
the Network Card into the
Name or address of server providing lpd
box.
If the network you are on uses DNS (Domain Name Services), type in
the DNS name instead of the IP address.
8
Type
PORT 1
into the
Name of printer or print queue on that server
box, and then click
OK
to close the dialog box.
9
Click the
Close
button of the Printer Ports dialog box, and then click
the
OK
button of the
Properties
dialog box to close it.
10
Right-click the printer icon again to display its Properties dialog box,
display the
General
tab, and then print a test page.
11
If the test prints normally, complete the procedure by clicking
OK
to
close the Properties dialog box.
After you finish installing a printer with the above procedure, you can use
it just as you would any standard local printer. The printer can also be
used as a network printer by other Windows computers on your network
whose Windows NT 4.0 systems are configured the same way as de-
scribed above.