| From: | Bent Ole Hagel�kken |
| Date: | 23 May 2000 at 12:05:15 |
| Subject: | Re: Network printing |
Jonas Thorell wrote:
>
> rodewald@t-online.de wrote:
>
> >Try to find an lpd-server for Windows NT e.g.
> >mlpd (e.g. on www.shareware.com) to enable this service on your Windows NT
> >machine.
>
> Silly programmers in the Windows-world...Windows NT has a lpd-server
> shipped as standard. Why should I pay for another one??
Because the stuff that comes with NT usually doesn't work very well..???
Just a thought.. ;)
>
> >The other way would be to connect the printer to the Amiga and to use
> >Samba on the Amiga-side. this works also fine.
>
Or; Siamese (http://www.siamese.co.uk) - with this ARexx-script called
"Samba Print Spooler"; http://www.dynamix.force9.co.uk/siamese.htm
(Needs Samba)
Or; lpd for the Amiga - from Aminet;
http://ftp.sunet.se/aminetbin/find?lpd
(I haven't tried this myself)
> That would also be an idea. The NT-machine is working 24h a day
> though (servers tend to do that...) and that's why I want it to
> work as the print-server too.
>
Yeah. Servers tend to do that, but you seem to confuse "servers" with
"NT-boxes" here... ;-P
> Ah well, I figure out why it's not working one day.
>
I've got a suggestion to what you can do... But you probably don't want
to hear it anyway... ;)
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