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- From: bri@ws.kpc.com (Brian Rice)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: lpr daemon for the mac (clarified)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.074352.12131@kpc.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 07:43:52 GMT
- References: <200@kixtal.UUCP> <202@kixtal.UUCP>
- Sender: usenet@kpc.com
- Reply-To: bri@ws.kpc.com (Brian Rice)
- Organization: Kubota Pacific Computer, Inc.
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- In article <202@kixtal.UUCP>, micjrs@mica.mic.ki.se (Richard Soderberg, MD) writes:
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- > Re: lpr daemon for the mac
- > By lpr daemon i mean a piece of software running all the time in the
- > backround looking for print requests over an IP network. To other
- > (mostly Unix) systems on the network the Mac printer looks like any
- > other printer connected to the system itself.
-
- Sounds like you want is lpd for the Mac. That would allow Unix Systems
- to access Mac printers. We're doing *that* with Caymen Systems
- Gator box but it's terribly unreliable (at no fault of the Caymen Box)
- so we'd like to do the opposite - attach the printers to the Unix
- machines (or the Ethernet directly) and print from the Macs to Unix.
- I haven't had any luck finding that package either. If your network
- isn't terribly flooded (yeah, right) you might just contact Caymen
- and go that route. Our problem is that we're using the Caymen Box at
- about 8 times its design specification. To Caymen's credit, it doesn't
- flake out all that often - it's just that when it does it's tedious as
- hell to restore the print net.
-
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- Bri
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