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- From: cdb@codex .oz.au (Cameron Bromley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Remote printing from PC
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.083140.5245@codex.oz.au>
- Date: 10 Sep 92 08:31:40 GMT
- References: <1992Sep03.030101.11052@cyantic.com>
- Sender: cdb@codex.oz.au (Cameron Bromley)
- Organization: Codex Software Development Pty Ltd
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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
- > print manager, but I'm wondering if anyone has found any workarounds.
-
- Your need to load the printcap entry for the printer you want into netinfo.
- Here's how:
- - "su" to root
- - "nidump printcap / > /tmp/printcap"
- - add the appropriate printer entry to /tmp/printcap
- - "niload printcap / < /tmp/printcap"
-
- This assumes that the printer you wish to use is in the / domain. Have you
- checked that the printer is marked public from the print manager?
-
- > 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.
-
- I'm using version 2.3 over the Lan Workplace TCP/IP stack, and it compiled
- fine. Maybe you need to upgrade?.
-
- Cameron.
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