68 Handling local printingPrinting to a LAN printerStandard 1.0 Network Administration Center November 1998User Guide SupplementPrinting to a LAN printerIntroduction You can redirect print jobs to printers attached to your LAN if• the LAN printer is a NAC-supported printer• the PC responsible for redirecting the output is runningMTELAN vendorsoftwareYou can run special software on a LAN-attached PC to interceptprinter data before MS-DOS can send it to one of the PC’sphysical ports. This software is provided by the LAN vendor.The printer data is then sent to a printer on the network, usuallythrough the server. This functionality is supplied by the specificLAN provider that your system’s LAN administratorconfigures.If you need this functionality, you must configure the PC printerport using the MS-DOS commands described in theMS-DOS user’s guide. It is the LAN administrator’sresponsibility to install, configure, and maintain this feature.
