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Date:	Sun, 14 Oct 2001 14:42:32 PDT
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re:TCP/IP Printserver Search

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Steve Schiffman wrote:

> Steve Carter made a great suggestion at the August Network Sig
> presentation that I gave on IP printing. It was to write the IP address
> and UNC names on the physical unit. This way, when you forget what
> values you configured, all you have to do is turn the unit over and read
> what they are. If you change the configuration, then remember to change
> the values you have written/attached to the unit.

Sounds like a great idea. Now, what is the UNC ?

This reminds me about something the salesperson at Micro Centre warned me about.

(He also moonlights doing network installations, and seemed to know what he was
talking about . . . although his English pronunciation was rather hard to
follow.)
He said that the cable service provider would furnish very skimpy info, or be
very
reluctant to furnish certain critical info that would be needed later, to
configure
something like the SMC box. (I gather they would not even touch this box them-
selves at the installation, because it's outside the narrow parameters of what
they do
or support.) This apparently because they don't want you to have the info you
would
need to turn your "one-Up" cable connection into a home network. I think he
said
that one of these things was some sort of customer or account ID # ? (That
doesn't
seem to make a whole lot of sense.) He told me that when the cable modem
service
is being installed at this location, I should really be there to press the
installer for them.

Anyway, since I know a lot of you seem to have a version of this SMC box, what
fields that must be properly filled in to configure it, with critical info or
values that
will be needed later, should I put on the "Ask For" list ?

Jordan

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