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- From: eps@futon.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Remote printing from PC
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.073048.15017@csus.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 07:30:48 GMT
- References: <1992Sep03.030101.11052@cyantic.com>
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- Organization: San Francisco State University
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- In article <1992Sep03.030101.11052@cyantic.com> mark@cyantic.com
- (Mark T. Dornfeld) writes:
- >I'd like to use the laser printer connected to my Turbo from a PC on the
- >network running Beame and Whiteside's TCP/NFS product, version 2.1. All
- >the NFS functions work correctly, but when I try to link a MS-DOS device to
- >the laser printer, it fails with an 'invalid printer' message.
- >
- >I am quite sure this has to do with running Netinfo and not a standard BSD
-
- I am quite sure you're wrong. NetInfo doesn't make a whit of
- difference.
-
- >print manager, but I'm wondering if anyone has found any workarounds. I am
- >also suspicious of the way Beame and Whiteside use the gethostbyname()
- >function call since their NFS daemon would not compile on the NeXT.
-
- That's a separate issue. In any case, I've never had any problem
- printing from PeeCees to NeXT Laser Printers using CUTCP's LPR
- program. Either you have misconfigured something, or there's
- something broken in B&W land (surprising, if true). You may have
- better luck in the comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc newsgroup.
-
- >Too bad the world has been 'blessed' with MS-DOS :-).
-
- What are YOU doing about it?
-
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