| From: | Jonas Thorell |
| Date: | 23 May 2000 at 14:07:45 |
| Subject: | RE: Network printing |
Bent Ole Hagel�kken wrote:
>> 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.. ;)
A thought, and correct in many cases. Not in this one though. I have
had it working fine before but not with an Amiga as a client.
With different Windows-versions and VMS though.
>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)
No Siamase for me thanks. I've never had my machine crash as badly
as when I tried that damn thing.
>> 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
Nope. They can work quite well as servers. And even if they hadn't,
any OS in use today is good enough to work as a simple print-server.
It's not exactly taxing work for a computer to do that.
Anyway, if Compaq and Nasdaq can use it...
>> 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... ;)
Install a Linux-server, right? Well, I have one of those too. But Linux
isn't my strong point unfortunately so I don't know how to go about
installing a printer on it. /etc/printcap is giving me nightmares...
and there's no X on it (it hasn't got any monitor nor mouse or keyboard
either).
>Telenor Internett Kundeservice
You don't want to know what I think of Telenor. Trust me on
that one.
/Jonas
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