[comp.unix.questions] Printing with terminalservers

harbo@diku.dk (Klaus Harbo) (08/16/90)

I want to be able to hook up printers on terminalservers, so that 
we can place our printers anywhere in the house. 

We use Ultrix on DECStations version 3.1. Our terminalservers are 
Bridge CS200. As far as I understand you can assign one of the physical
ports on the terminalserver to have a separate IP address.

What's needed then, is some kind of software that will send open a (TCP?)
connection to that IP address, and send the print job to that port. Does
anyone know of such software, and will the solution I suggest do the job?

I do not know a lot about terminalservers, but I suppose it contains
the software needed to handle TCP connections, directing the output
to the physical port on the terminalserver assigned to the printer.

Thanks in advance.

-Klaus
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rdavis@connie.UUCP (Ray Davis) (08/17/90)

In <1990Aug16.143007.4690@diku.dk> harbo@diku.dk (Klaus Harbo) writes:

>I want to be able to hook up printers on terminalservers, so that 
>we can place our printers anywhere in the house. 

I've mailed you a shar file of a program I wrote called tsprintd.
It works on a Convex which has 4.3/sun based networking.  It also
requires named pipes.  Should work on Ultrix unless you have no
named pipes.  If not you should be able to hack it to run
differently.  The basic networking code to get to the terminal
server.  It seems to work with most terminal servers, but it
depends on the server.

Have fun...

Ray Davis
Convex Computer GmbH, Frankfurt, West Germany
unido!connie!rdavis, uunet!convex!rdavis, rdavis@convex.com, +49-69-666-8081