Steve wrote:
> I'm not sure if this should go here or in Hardware since it really
> concerns both. Lets try here and see whose feathers ruffle!
>
> I now have an OS/2 Warp4 system, an eCS 1.2 system, and an SUSE 10.0
> Linux system running.  RSN I'll be adding an IBM Netvista 2.4GHz P4 I
> bought for dirt from Tiger Direct.  I also have a laptop (a Thinkpad,
> BTW) I use occasionally that boots both W4 and Win98.
>
> And, I have one printer (and no room for another).
>
> All of the above can/will connect to the Internet, but I have never
> bothered to install peer on any of them 'cause until now I never needed
> to. I have heard about these print server thingies, and read a bit about
> them long enough ago that I've forgotten what I read. Does anyone have
> any idea if I could just set all my applications to print to the IP
> address assigned to the printer (or the print server, whatever)  OR
> somehow instruct all the operating systems that anything sent to the
> printer goes to the IP address?  I'd imagine that if push came to shove
> I could always print to a file and NcFTP the file to the the print server. 
>
>
> Does anyone have any experience with these things, or suggestions as to
> how I might pull it off?  I'm more concerned about it working with Warp4
> and eCS. I think Linux will be a cake-walk.
>
> Sorry to ruin your week, Dale. :(
>
>   
Last things first, Linux won't neccessarily be a "cake walk".

OK, what you need are:

Printer drivers for the printer for all platforms you are using. If this 
is a win-printer (aka host based) forget it, you won't get it working 
with everything.

You then need LPD support on all platforms - it comes with OS/2 and eCS 
and OS/2 Kernel based versions of Windoze (i.e. Windows 2000 and XP). It 
DOES NOT come with Windows 98 - you will have to find an add-on. It 
comes with Unix distributions, so it "ought" to come with your Linux 
systems, but only if the distribution has it compiled in (most likely yes).

You then need all systems connected on the same LAN on the same IP subnet.

You then need the print server itself - it may be an add-in card for you 
printer or an external device that connects to the printer via USB or 
parallel cable - the other "side" of it connecting into the same sub-net 
on your LAN.

Give the print server a fixed IP address.

Configure a print queue name on the print server.

Configure all of your LPD daemons to point to this IP address plus Queue 
name (how you do this is different on each platform).

Install (if not already installed) the printer driver and point it's 
object at the LPD port and off you go !

Cheers/2

Ed.


 
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