mcitron@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Mark Citron) (02/18/91)
There have been several posting lately regarding printing from a Novell to Unix lpr. I want to go the other way and eliminate Unix print servers by printing though Novell connected printers. Novell printers are easier to connect via ethernet and dont need an 'official' IP address like Unix print servers do. Any thoughts on how to do this? Thanks for any info Mark Citron -- Mark Citron mark@neurosci.usc.edu
roto@csc.fi (02/18/91)
In article <30465@usc>, mcitron@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Mark Citron) writes: > There have been several posting lately regarding printing from a > Novell to Unix lpr. I want to go the other way and eliminate Unix > print servers by printing though Novell connected printers. Novell > printers are easier to connect via ethernet and dont need an > 'official' IP address like Unix print servers do. > > Any thoughts on how to do this? > > Thanks for any info > Mark Citron > > -- > Mark Citron > mark@neurosci.usc.edu We currently print from 3 unix computers to the novell printers. But the whole solution is far from elegant. The print jobs on the unix are put on the novell server using FTP and the micom interlan tcp/ip gateway card ( I refuse to recomend this product) and a PC polls the directories on the server and print the jobs to novell. Instead if the gateway, you could use a second PC running NCSA telnet or try putting both pc-nfs or similar and novell drivers on the PC that does the polling... just some ideas... yours, Vesa Roto roto@csc.fi visa@shh.fi supervisor@shh.fi
nenaas@ulrik.uio.no (Nils-Eivind Naas) (02/18/91)
In article <1991Feb18.133302.1@csc.fi> roto@csc.fi writes: In article <30465@usc>, mcitron@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Mark Citron) writes: > There have been several posting lately regarding printing from a > Novell to Unix lpr. I want to go the other way and eliminate Unix > print servers by printing though Novell connected printers. Novell > printers are easier to connect via ethernet and dont need an > 'official' IP address like Unix print servers do. > > Any thoughts on how to do this? > > Thanks for any info > Mark Citron > > -- > Mark Citron > mark@neurosci.usc.edu We currently print from 3 unix computers to the novell printers. But the whole solution is far from elegant. The print jobs on the unix are put on the novell server using FTP and the micom interlan tcp/ip gateway card ( I refuse to recomend this product) and a PC polls the directories on the server and print the jobs to novell. Instead if the gateway, you could use a second PC running NCSA telnet or try putting both pc-nfs or similar and novell drivers on the PC that does the polling... just some ideas... yours, Vesa Roto roto@csc.fi visa@shh.fi supervisor@shh.fi On the anonymous ftp site rodan.acs.syr.edu version 3 of Charon, a Novell <-> TCP/IP gateway is to be found. This claims to support transparent 2-way printing between Unix and Novell. In conjunction with the Pegasus Mail program it also offers SMTP mail to Novell 2.15 users. It has been discussed at great length on bit.listserv.novell. A pity the distribution of this list has faltered has faltered since the appearance of comp.sys.novell. Yours, Nils-Eivind Naas ISAF, Oslo
cintra4@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Lange) (02/19/91)
nenaas@ulrik.uio.no (Nils-Eivind Naas) writes: [..] > >On the anonymous ftp site rodan.acs.syr.edu version 3 of Charon, >a Novell <-> TCP/IP gateway is to be found. >This claims to support transparent 2-way printing between Unix and Novell. >In conjunction with the Pegasus Mail program it also offers SMTP mail >to Novell 2.15 users. [..] Just to keep the story straight, the announcements of Charon 3.1 are a little more current than the manual. LPR/LPD support DID NOT make it into the 3.1 Charon release. The code for LPR/LPD exists in Charon 2.0A (a previous release) that is available from omnigate.clarkson.edu under CUTCP. I believe there are plans to move this functionality up to the most recent release of Charon, but I haven't seen a time estimate. Dave Lange cintra4@u.washington.edu