Gregory R Olen wrote:
>
> Our company is expanding into some space on a different floor of the
> building.  We need to bring some HP line printers and other devices up
> to this new location.
>
> Currently we are all networked via Ethernet and this is the different
> segments are connected via Thinlan in the following arrangement.
>
> DTC -- DTC -- HP3000 -- Ethernet Hub --- Ethernet Hub
>
> To accomodate this move I would like to rearrange this setup to look like
>
> DTC -- HP3000 -- Ethernet Hub -- DTC -- Ethernet Hub
>
> or
>
> DTC -- HP3000 -- Ethernet Hub -- Ethernet Hub -- DTC.
>

Sorry, I do not realy understand what you mean. You should be able to
connect your DTC anywhere in the "same" network, even on another floor.

> So will I be able to simply disconnect the DTC and plug it back in at a
> different location without any problems ???
>
> On a secondary issue - can I hook up Laserjets on the Ethernet network up
> to the HP3000 with MPE 5.0 or do I need 5.5 ??

You probably can. But you need a third party spooling product (like
ESPUL, NBSPOOL ....) if you stay on MPE/iX 5.0. On 5.5 this functionality
is bundled into the FOS.

Cheers,

Friedrich
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance/advice.
>
> Greg Olen
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