Chris Bartram wrote: > We have a network of Windows for Workgroups machines - no Novell/NT on this > net. We're thinking about dropping a Jetdirect card in our LJ4 Plus so our > 3000s can use it as a printer. If we do this, can the WFWG PCs access the > printer? (As far as I know, the printer has to be "attached" to a workstation > to "share" it in WFWG...) <lurk mode: stop> *If* your JetDirect card is of recent ROM revision (or new ;), you can print simultaneously with any of the supported protocols (well, not really simultaneously, only one protocol at a time may be active in the card, but as soon as that transfer finishes, the first protocol to request a connection will get it). BTW, what are you going to use to print to a JetDirect from HP300's? As far as I know, HP has nothing that will talk to a JetDirect in an MPE environment. What we use is Proactive System's Fantasia laser printer formatter, which comes with the value-added goodie that it can print to a JetDirect using the TCP HPNPF proprietary protocol. With Fantasia, we can either print Fantasia-formatted jobs to any JD PCL printer, or we can set up a "phantom spool" that Fantasia intercepts and sends jobs as "passthru" (semi-raw in a Unix sense) to a JD PCL printer. On the other hand, if you can get your hands on the hpnpf source code (the HP-UX utility that comes in the UX JetAdmin package), you can get down and dirty and program Berkeley sockets on MPE to communicate directly with the JD card. (The source code comes in many of the versions of HP's UX software distributions). <verbose mode: off>... Marco Zamora