| 摘要 |
The present invention provides a network peripheral sharing system comprising a computer network, at least one client computer connected to the computer network, at least one server computer connected to the computer network, and a network address table containing network addresses of server computers connected to the computer network. Each client computer has a peripheral searching program that searches peripherals connected to the computer network and each server computer has at least one connected peripheral. The peripheral serving program in the server computer provides information on the status of peripherals to the client computer and transmits the status message of the peripheral to the client computer after receiving a request from the user thus establishing a link between the client computer and the peripheral. The peripheral searching program in the client computer emits a search request based on network addresses contained in the network address table to search the available peripherals of the server computer. The computer network, or internet, may further comprise sub-networks wherein client computers send search requests to the sub-network to search the peripheral connected to a server computer within the sub-network.
|
