R.J.Letts@sysc.salford.ac.uk (11/07/90)
I am very new to TCP/IP networking, as we have only just started to get Unix
machines in the central service, so please excuse what may be a trivial
problem, though reply to it if you can......
One of the departments here has a development LAN with PC's on it using PC-NFS
and Western Digital ethernet cards. These are served by a SUN Sparcstation 1+,
and a PRIME EXL 325. neither the servers have any serial or parallel ports,
so solutions based on these are too expensive for them to consider.
What they want to do is to connect a Laser-Printer to a pc [grotty old XT type]
on the network and be able to 'spool' print jobs to it over the network.
Constraints:
1. Must be cheap [ie the cost of an ether-card]
2. Easy to setup [I am an EX-8086 assembly language programmer
with little knowledge of tcp/ip]
3. WORK.
Any ideas of how to do this would be VERY much appreciated
Richard Letts
Network Manager
University of Salford
Great Britain