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To configure a Windows NT 4.0/2000/Server 2003 server to communicate with the 
Fiery X3e, follow these general steps. More detail is provided in subsequent sections in 
this chapter and in your Microsoft documentation.

If your TCP/IP network consists of Windows NT 4.0/2000/Server 2003 servers and 
Windows clients, follow the procedures in this section. If the network includes UNIX 
workstations, also see the procedures on 

.

For installations that do not have a network administrator or central host 
name database, add the Fiery X3e to the 

hosts

 file on the Windows NT 4.0/2000/ 

Server 2003 server. Also add it to the 

hosts

 file on any workstations that have TCP/IP 

loaded and will use the Fiery utilities.

The Windows NT 4.0/2000/Server 2003 

hosts

 file provides compatibility with the 

UNIX 

hosts

 file. The 

hosts

 file is used as a local Domain Name Services (DNS) 

equivalent. It has the same format as the 

/etc/hosts

 file on UNIX servers. The format 

of the hosts entry is:

IP Address<TAB>host name<TAB>#comments

where 

<TAB> 

indicates that you press the Tab key. 

To determine the IP address and server name of your system, print a Configuration 
page (see 

If the Fiery X3e has already been defined in an

 /etc/hosts

 file or equivalent host 

name database on a UNIX workstation on your network, we recommend you use the 
same host name here as you used for the name of the remote printer in the 

/etc/printcap

 file.

Enter the options in Protocol Setup (IP address of the Fiery X3e, subnet mask, and 
gateway address).

The first step in creating a printer is installing the printer driver files, which give your 
applications access to printer features. You can use the installation instructions in the 

 for every workstation that will print directly and 

independently to the Fiery X3e. However, if you are an administrator running a 
Windows NT 4.0/2000/Server 2003 server or Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP 
workstation, you can also create a printer and share it with clients on the network. This 
allows clients who do not have permission to establish an independent network 
connection to the Fiery X3e to print through the server.

You can specify sharing of the printer during installation of the Fiery X3e printer 
files. If you have not yet installed the Fiery X3e printer files on the 
Windows NT 4.0/2000/Server 2003 print server computer, do so now, following 
the instructions in the 

. During installation, enter the 

information necessary to share the Fiery X3e.

If you have already installed the Fiery X3e printer files on the computer you are using 
as a Windows NT 4.0/2000/Server 2003 print server, see your Windows 
documentation for information about sharing the Fiery X3e.

If more than one Fiery X3e print connection is published (for example, if both the 
Print queue and the Hold queue are published), you may want to create a printer for 
each print connection, so that you and other users can print to each connection 
directly. When prompted to specify the printer name, enter a name that indicates the 
Fiery X3e print connection.

Each client of a Windows NT 4.0/2000/Server 2003 server is already using a network 
protocol to communicate with the server. Each client can print to the Fiery X3e if it 
has been shared by a Windows NT 4.0/2000/Server 2003 server, or 
Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP computer. In that case, the client does not have to use the 
same network protocol to connect to the Windows NT 4.0/2000/Server 2003 server as 
the server uses to communicate with the Fiery X3e.

You are prompted to set up the printer. When you choose to set it up, the Add Printer 
Wizard dialog box appears. Follow the procedures in the

 

.

When prompted, click Yes to have Windows set up the printer.

After clients have selected the printer, they can choose it from the Print Setup, 
Page Setup, or Print dialog box of their application. Clients can change printing 
options for their own job, but printer properties appear dimmed, and unavailable 
for changing. When a client chooses Print, the job is transmitted to the 
Windows NT 4.0/2000/Server 2003 print server, and from there to the selected 
print connection on the Fiery X3e. The job is listed in the Print Manager on the 
client workstation, and the administrator can track it in the Fiery X3e window in the 
Print Manager on the Windows NT 4.0/2000/Server 2003 print server.