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Is there such a thing as a (unix compatible) lpd daemon for OS/2?
Would a DOS one work?

Basically we're looking for a way to let TCP'ed PCs (running BSD or Windows) to talk to a HP LaserJet hooked up to an OS/2 box on a LanManager Network. Someone
wants to avoid buying an EtherNet card for the printer and do this the easy way.

Pointers to FAQ's, ftp sites, more relevant newsgroups gratefully accepted.

e-mail responses preferred.

Thanks.
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---Simon Boyle
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Subject: Re: AppleTalk - Can anyone help? (long)

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Evan Dorn) writes:
>From: [e-mail] (Evan Dorn)
>Subject: AppleTalk - Can anyone help?
>Date: 25 Mar 1994 00:10:14 GMT

>Hey,  my school decided to cripple it's students by installing AppleTalk!

>Meanwhile, I am working on helping all the *marginalized* PC users get
>connected to the net-  and I'm stymied when it comes to Windows and
>packets.
>I have Farallon's Phone net software and some DOS based (Stanford) IP
>stuff successfully running.

>I have installed the Crynwr Appletlk.com packet driver successfully, and
>WINPKT boots OK, but in Windows, the TCPman refuses to start, giving the
>drivers not found error.

>Is this insurmountable because I am on a dumb network?
>Any advice would be greatly appreciated by the poor PC users of Swarthmore.
>Thanks,
>Evan <[e-mail]>

I was going to write my answer to your address, but since quite a few people
expressed their interest, I thought I will share my current knowledge with
the rest.
I have the same setting, and managed to get the system working after
a lot of effort. The problem is that phonenet pc is using a odi driver, not a
packet driver. After loading the phonenet drivers you must load a shim -
odipkt, which rides on top of the odi driver and emulates a packet driver.
After odipkt you load can load winpkt and finally winsock. I did not manage to
get the system working until I have done a few things:1. switched to a vector
address of 0x69 (which is the default address of odipkt). You must specify
this address to both winpkt and winsock.2. modified net.cfg to include four
frames, and enough buffers. My net.cfg looks now like that:
Link Support
   Buffers 6 1600
   MemPool 16K

Protocol AppleTalk
    DEFAULT NE2000 #1 H(5080B4) Z(HUBBSHALL)
        AARP NE2000 #1 H(0001) L(6) B(090007FFFFFF)

Link Driver NE2000
#   Eagle/Novell NE2000T Ethernet Adapter
    INT #1 3
    PORT #1 300 3
    FRAME ETHERNET_II
    FRAME ETHERNET_802.2
    FRAME ETHERNET_802.3
    FRAME ETHERNET_SNAP
    PROTOCOL IPX 0 ETHERNET_802.3
    PROTOCOL APPLETALK 80007809B ETHERNET_SNAP
    PROTOCOL AARP 80F3 ETHERNET_SNAP
3. after all that winsock stopped telling me "can't load tcp", but instead
began compaining that it does not have enough memory for network buffers. I
than moved all the driver loading statements from the file "aboth.bat" in
phonenet directory (which was called from autoexec.bat) into autoexec.bat, and
ran memmaker on it. so the relevant part of my autoexec.bat now looks like:
REM call C:\PHONENET\ABOTH
C:\PHONENET\LSL
C:\PHONENET\PNTVDD
LH /L:2,13536 C:\PHONENET\NE2000
LH /L:3,11360 C:\PHONENET\AARP
LH /L:3,47136 C:\PHONENET\ATALK
LH /L:1,8528 C:\PHONENET\ASP_WS
C:\PHONENET\ASHARE
LH /L:1,1872 C:\PHONENET\MINSES
LH /L:3,34032 C:\PHONENET\REDIR
LH /L:2,8832 C:\PHONENET\PAP_WS
C:\PHONENET\APRINT
C:\PHONENET\ANET AUTO
LH /L:4,3472 c:\network\odipkt24
LH /L:2,4032 c:\network\winsock\winpkt 0x69

After optimizing the memory, winsock now loads with 10 out of 16 buffers,
which seem to be enough for most of the time (I do have a crash of winsock
every once in a while), and phonenet is just fine.

You can get odipkt from hsdndev.harvard.edu.
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Is there any way to get WinVn to subscribe to a new news group without having
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