thorh@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Thor Hallen) (06/08/90)
My previous posting of a work-around to access network printers with
PC-NFS and Windows 3.0 was sketchy so here is a more detailed description.
My version of PC-NFS is 3.01 with MS-DOS 4.01 but I don't think this
is critical:
1. Change prt * to prt -T30 * in your autoexec.bat file.
2. Run nfsconf and setup the network printer for print after 5 minutes.
( Printing will actually occur in 30 seconds because of step 1 above. )
3. If you have a postscript printer, select the postscript option
before exiting the nfsconf program.
4. Start windows and configure your printer as connected to LPT2.OS2
( If you access your printer as LPT3: through PC-NFS, use an
editor to define LPT3.OS2 in your win.ini file using the LPT2.OS2
definition as a model. This port will then appear as an option when
you run setup or the control panel. )
This configuration will enable access to network printers directly from
applications as if the printer was local. As previously mentioned, Sun is
working on an update for windows 3 compatibility.
Thor Hallen
Tektronix, Inc.tonyb@olivej.olivetti.com (Anthony M. Brich) (06/30/90)
In article <7629@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>, thorh@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Thor Hallen) writes: > > My previous posting of a work-around to access network printers with > PC-NFS and Windows 3.0 was sketchy so here is a more detailed description. > My version of PC-NFS is 3.01 with MS-DOS 4.01 but I don't think this > is critical: > > 1. Change prt * to prt -T30 * in your autoexec.bat file. We use: prt -T10 * My admittedly sketchy understanding of the prt statement is that it tells NFS to allow printing after XX seconds (default 5 minutes), so, at least as far as I understand it, by setting -T10 instead of -T30, you "save" 20 seconds somewhere. Anybody know EXACTLY what's going on with the prt statement and NFS? Regards, Tony Brich