Sharing Remote Printer

You can also get a printer sharing device, such as JetDirect from HP, that hooks directly to the network and you then connect your printer (which can be a printer that's meant to be standalone) to the network.

The nice thing about these printers (and the networkable printers Sahirh mentioned) is that it is easier to print to with different OSs.

Yep enabling sharing can be dangerous (tfs has got me started especially if the computer with sharing enabled is connected to the internet. You might want to set strong passwords on the sharing.

Strong passwords or not, the passwords on Windows 98 shares can easily be broken by using a tool like PQWak. This is because there's a flaw in the encryption routine.

If you are concerend about security (and you should be ) you should upgrade to Windows 2000 or firewall everyone off except your own machine.

You're correct.

Passwords are easily broken, especially if, as most people do, they use fairly easy to remember passwords - if any at all - that are easily broken. And the problem is that 98 is not really meant to be that secure.

It would be better to go to a more secure operating system if possible, but if not, you have to use what you have. I would suggest VPNing, if possible, also.

sahir wrote

Out of curiosity, you said you dial up and print on this printer.. I assume if you dial up, you must be quite far away.. so how do you get the printed documents ?!? Or is this like a one way fax machine

I guess some one will mail it back to him :lol: