eing@cosmo.UUCP (Hubert Eing/Hubert Eing Textilveredlung) (07/02/90)
I want to connect a PC under MS-DOS over a TCP/IP connection to a Unix Host under 386/ix from Interactive with 386/ix TCP/IP. Is it possible to use the local printer on the PC as a UNIX printer ? --- Thanks in advance Pau Abbing
matt@iquery.UUCP (Matt Reedy) (07/04/90)
In article <5807@balu.UUCP> eing@cosmo.UUCP (Hubert Eing/Hubert Eing Textilveredlung) writes: >I want to connect a PC under MS-DOS over a TCP/IP connection >to a Unix Host under 386/ix from Interactive with 386/ix TCP/IP. >Is it possible to use the local printer on the PC as a UNIX printer ? Not that I know of using standard TCP/IP and/or PC-NFS. The way printer sharing is implemented under UNIX TCP/IP is via a daemon that talks with whoever wants to print on that machine's printer. Since MS-DOS is single- tasking (unless you consider TSR's to be a crude form of multi-tasking) there is not an easy way to do this. However, MS-DOS hackers are very clever and there may someone out there who has written a TSR to do something like this. matt --- Matthew Reedy UUCP: cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!dptspd!iquery!matt Programmed Intelligence Corp. Internet: iquery!matt@cs.utexas.edu 400 N Loop 1604 E, Suite 100 San Antonio, TX 78232 (512) 490 6684 Fax: (512) 490-3590
jim@syteke.be (Jim Sanchez) (07/05/90)
There is an outfit in Sweden called nexus that makes a product called
lanpr which does this and MUCH more. They are on the net as
lanpr@nexus.se so send them some email if you are interested. I am
NOT connected with them in any way except that my distr{ibutor in
Sweden swears by it and I trust him.
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Brussels tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold) (07/12/90)
In article <5807@balu.UUCP> eing@cosmo.UUCP (Hubert Eing/Hubert Eing Textilveredlung) writes: $ I want to connect a PC under MS-DOS over a TCP/IP connection $ to a Unix Host under 386/ix from Interactive with 386/ix TCP/IP. $ Is it possible to use the local printer on the PC as a UNIX printer ? One approach to this would be to port or emulate Berkeley Unix's lpd program to MS-DOS. It would tie up the PC however. Unless, however, as someone has already suggested, this could be run as a TSR. If you *did* port lpd, I would be interested in getting a copy. Unix people would be very happy to use a printing hos that used lpd (line printer daemon), and they would not know that the host was not running Unix. On your Unix system, you would need to run lpr and lpq. I think they are available for System V. -- Tom Reingold tr@samadams.princeton.edu rutgers!princeton!samadams!tr 201-577-5814 "Brew strength depends upon the amount of coffee used." -Black&Decker
jeg@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (John E. Girard) (07/17/90)
In my last job I set up old floppy-only PCs to be printer managers with great success. The trouble with using a daemon on the server is that the printer has to be with the server, and generally, you can't send 8-bit characters and bit rasters. All you have to do is make a directory on the server that everyone can read/write, and put a simple (even basic) program on the PC that waits 20 seconds or so then checks the directory for the presence of files. If files are present, the program uses a shell call to copy them, one-by-one, to the printer port, them remove them. If the PC or the printer hangs, the file won't be deleted and you can try again to print it. Other neat things you can do: Password protect the little printing program, make another directory to "hold" files until the user gets to the printer, place a special character at the start of the names of the files that need special handling, such as binary bit-raster graphic files for an HP laser printer. All the user needs to do is to print to disk, in fact directly to the network disk if possible. Otherwise, the file can be printed locally and a batch file can copy it over to the network disk. My spool batch file script had several options including -f to just send the file as-is, -p to send the file via my word processor invoked as a batch task, and -b to send it as a binary file (dos /b option) and put a special character in the start of the name. Spooling is very fast when it consists solely of copying a file to a network disk. And the PC doing the printing just cranks them out as quickly as it can, without bogging anyone down. If you have several PCs, you can put them around the office so no one has to walk to far to a printer, and the file server can stay safely locked in the closet. John Girard jeg@zorch.sf-bay.com