MAC@cup.portal.com (Michael Alan Casteel) (04/10/91)
I just heard that the LJIIIsi can be connected with a LAN card and remotely accessed via TCP/IP. Some Novell-type protocol was claimed to run on top of TCP. I'd like to get this hookup going from HP-UX and MPE; sounds like a neat possibility to share a printer. Anybody know where to get documentation sufficient for this task? Mike Casteel Unison Software
pmagnuso@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Phill Magnuson) (04/20/91)
The Network Printer Interface available for the LaserJet IIISi does provide a direct network connect for the printer. HP has both Ethernet and Token Ring connections available. The cards support connections to either a Novell or 3Com file server. In the Novell case, the card has Novell protocols, SPX/IPX, and application protocols for communicating with the file server. At this time, HP does not support TCP/IP on the cards. Our experience so far has been that customers are very please with the network connections. They allow sharing of the printers, complete flexibility of location, and vastly improved data rates to the printer.
hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)) (04/22/91)
In article <15520033@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> pmagnuso@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Phill Magnuson) writes: >> The Network Printer Interface available for the LaserJet IIISi does provide >> a direct network connect for the printer. HP has both Ethernet and Token >> Ring connections available. The cards support connections to either a >> Novell or 3Com file server. In the Novell case, the card has Novell >> protocols, SPX/IPX, and application protocols for communicating with >> the file server. At this time, HP does not support TCP/IP on the cards. So why are HP-UX users treated as second-class citizens? I called in with some questions to the printer support line in Boise (regarding connecting a Deskjet to the parallel prot on a 9000/345) and it seemed that no one had ever heard of HP-UX. The Vectras I can handle myself, Thank you Greetings, Hardy -------****------- Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy); Department of Physics, University of California Irvine CA 92717; (714) 856 5543; hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET