jqj@uoregon.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson) (10/03/88)
I am looking for a public domain or very cheap way to share printers attached to PCs in a TCP/IP and Ethernet environment. Specifically, I have a group of PC users, all of whom have Ethernet cards and routinely use NCSA Telnet. They wish to share local printers. I am aware of various products for Novell work groups that allow such printer sharing; most involve a small TSR that live on the PC and require a Novell file server to provide spooling and serialization. Is there anything similar for the TCP/IP world (I have available a Unix file server, so it would be enough to have a TSR client that redirects printer output via FTP or rcp to the Unix server). Note that it is possible to print on a PC running NCSA Telnet since NCSA Telnet includes an FTP server -- just ftp a file to prn or whatever on that PC. What is missing, it would seem, is the client side.