Ed Durrant wrote:
> 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 
 *** Correction - that should have said LPR , not LPD ***

> - 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 LPR 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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