摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently and reliably perform device driver updating for a plurality of information processors connected by a network to use peripheral devices. SOLUTION: A plurality of host computers 1 are connected through an intranet 6 and can share a digital compound machine 2 as a peripheral device. Each of host computers 1 is provided with a printer driver 12 and a scanner driver 13 as the device driver of an OS 11 for utilizing the digital compound machine 2. The version information of these device drivers is managed by a version information transmitting/receiving part 25 of the digital compound machine 2 and on the basis of the control by a time managing part 26, the inquiry of version information is performed to a device driver managing server computer 3 at fixed timing. The inquiry result of the version information is reported through the intranet 6 to each of host computers 1.
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