| 摘要 |
Environments of various devices such as an image input device are effectively used as a commonly used resource (shared resource) on a network can be simply set without any loss. In an information processing apparatus provided on a network, a CPU checks as to whether or not a device is locally connected to this information processing apparatus, and then notifies this check result to a management device provided on the network. This management device judges as to whether or not a server program of a common system is installed in a terminal apparatus based on a content of a notification issued from this terminal apparatus. In accordance with this judgement result, the management device installs this server program to this terminal apparatus. Furthermore, in an information processing apparatus having a client function with respect to the server program, when this server program is present on the same node on the network, the information processing apparatus is automatically controlled so as to directly communicate, whereas so as to communicate via a network when this server program is present on another node.
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