pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) (09/09/88)
I have a printer on a 3B2/400 client and I want to send printing jobs to
it from the STARlan server 3B2/400. The FM shows how to do this if the
printer is connected directly to a STARlan NAU port, but not when it's
connected to /dev/tty55 of a computer that's connected to the NAU port.
Can anyone help? Thanks.
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Trenton, NJ 08690 Voice: 1-609-586-4800les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) (09/10/88)
In article <815@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes: >I have a printer on a 3B2/400 client and I want to send printing jobs to >it from the STARlan server 3B2/400. The FM shows how to do this if the >printer is connected directly to a STARlan NAU port, but not when it's >connected to /dev/tty55 of a computer that's connected to the NAU port. The usual way would be to set up uucp over the network, then send the job via uux. The uux can be done as an explicit command or from the interface program of the lp spooler on the local machine. If security between machines is not a problem, there is a way to set up uucp with no login checking which runs much faster (no pseudo-tty). This setup is versatile since the uucp connection can be changed to a different media without any visible change. There is some extra overhead imposed by uucp's queuing and logging activity, though. If the printer is not also used by the machine where it is attached, you might mount /dev from the machine with the printer into (somewhere else) the machine that will use it, and set up lp to access it directly. However, you could not have the lp spooler on both machines accessing the same physical printer. Les Mikesell