Resource Guide

The following changes were made in the Windows NT Resource Guide:

• • Introduction
  • • page xxiii, second item in the second bulleted list, Delete the phrase "and disks."
  • • page xxvi, first two paragraphs under the section "Resource Kit Compact Disc," Replace them with the following paragraph:

    The compact disc (CD) that accompanies the Windows NT Resource Kit contains utilities that apply to information in both the Windows NT Resource Guide and the Windows NT Networking Guide. This CD includes a collection of information resources, tools, and utilities that can make networking and working with Windows NT even easier. The Windows NT Messages database and the utilities for Optimizing Windows NT are also included on the Windows NT Resource Kit CD.

  • • page xxix, both bulleted items at the top of the page, Delete the phrase "or first floppy disk."
• • Chapter 5, "Windows NT File Systems and Advanced Disk Management"
  • • page 189, first paragraph, Add quotation marks before and after the following path statement, "D:\WORD FOR WINDOWS\WINWORD.EXE."
  • • page 205, first paragraph under the section "Disk Striping with Parity," Replace the phrase "multiple single points" with "against a single point."
  • • page 205, second paragraph under the section "Disk Striping with Parity," Delete the following phrase, "(that is, CD-ROMs)."

• • Chapter 6, "Printing"
  • • page 215, Delete the following sentence at the end of the page:

    Included with this resource kit is a PRINTER.INF file you can modify to install newly released .PPD files.

  • • page 216, Table 6.2, Switch the order of the two data types (RAW [FF Auto] and RAW [FF Appended]) in the first column. Do not switch the order of the text in the second and third columns.
  • • page 229, Figure 6.7, In the WINPRINT.DLL box, add a fifth datatype, JOURNAL surrounded by a box. In the SFMPSPRT.DLL box, change PSCRIPT to PSCRIPT1.
  • • page 230, second paragraph after the bulleted list, Replace [FF Auto] with [FF Appended] and vice versa.
  • • page 235, screen shot of Available AppleTalk Printing Devices, Remove the three entries that have PCL in their name.
  • • page 235, first sentence in last paragraph, Delete the word "printers" and replace it with "print devices."
  • • page 235, after the last paragraph, Add the following new paragraph:

    Some print devices process non-PostScript® print jobs incorrectly if they receive those jobs over AppleTalk®. Also, some print devices process PostScript jobs incorrectly if those jobs contain binary data and arrive over any protocol other than AppleTalk. These problems result from restrictions in certain print devices; they do not indicate that the Windows NT Server print server is transmitting the jobs incorrectly.

  • • page 238, second paragraph after the screen shot, Change the two instances of the sample IP address to "11.22.33.44."
  • • page 239, after the paragraph following the Note, Add the following new paragraph:

    When you use the LPR command to send print jobs to a Windows NT Server print server, the name of the printer is the text in the Print Name field of the Printer Properties dialog box; it is not the text in the Share Name field.

  • • page 241, Table 6.3, Change the asterisks (*) in the fourth row to the superscript footnote symbol 1 (1).
  • • page 241, Table 6.4, Change "PSCRIPT1" in the second row to "PSCRIPT1." Change the three instances of "No1" in the fourth row to "No1."
  • • page 242, first sentence in second paragraph, Replace it with the following sentence:

    When a Windows-based application running on a Windows NT Workstation (or client) computer sends a job over the network to a printer established by the Connect To Printer command, it uses the graphics engine to create a fully rendered job, with data type RAW.

  • • page 242, first sentence in fourth paragraph, Change "Windows NT Workstation" to "Windows NT Workstation (or client)" and "Connect To" to "Create Printer."
  • • page 247, last paragraph, Change the paragraph to a Note format to give it more emphasis, add the word "Note," delete the first two words, "Note that," and change the third word, "the," to "The."
• • Chapter 14, "Registry Value Entries"
  • • Entire chapter, See the REGENTRY.HLP file on the Windows NT Resource Kit CD for the latest additions and changes to the Registry values.
  • • page 448, first paragraph under the section "Linkage Subkey Entries for Network Componenets," Change the referenced chapter number from "11" to "10."
  • • page 449, last paragraph at the bottom of the page, Change the referenced chapter number from "11" to "10."
  • • page 521, third paragraph under the section "Remote Access Service (RAS) Entries," Replace it with the following sentence:

    For information on Remote Access configuration files and other parameters, see Appendix B, "Migrating from Earlier Versions of the Remote Access Service," in the Windows NT Remote Access Service book, which comes as part of the Windows NT Server product documentation. This book is also included in the "Books Online" part of Windows NT Server.

• • Appendix D, "Hardware Compatibility List," Entire chapter, See the online Help version on the Windows NT Resource Kit CD for the latest additions and changes to the list of computers and peripherals that have been tested for compatibility with Windows NT 3.51 and passed.