19 Sep
1998
19 Sep
'98
8:11 p.m.
Hi,
I've never figured out how to hook into a printer on another system
[FROM NeXTStep/Rhapsody] which is annoying. It's easy if you're in
the same location as netinfo handles everything for you... but I
haven't been able to get one NeXT machine speaking remotely to
another NeXT machine's laser printer without netinfo at long
distances.
I had better luck getting Windows networking and printing to work
with my NeXT machine tho'. I expose my printer to my login account
and can print from any Windows machine on the Internet to my NeXT
machine once I login. Using Samba, you can have both Windows
Networking and can configure your NeXT machine to look like a
Postscript Laserprinter which is just _dandy_ for printing quick
output from Win95 when you're away from home.
Thomas
I've done it two different ways. The first way was about a year ago, from
my OPENSTEP 4.2 system. I set up CAP, and printed to my Mac using
Appletalk. You have to run "Laserwriter Bridge" on the Mac which bridges
the ethernet to localtalk.
The way I've set up this last week is to configure my Linux box to accept
remote print jobs from my NeXT slab. Then setup a printcap entry on the
NeXT for the printer. To do this I did a:
nidump printcap . >/tmp/printcap
edited the file then
niload printcap . </tmp/printcap
you need a printcap entry that looks something like:
lj1:\
:lp=:rp=cse-lj1:rm=some.host.com:\
:sd=/usr/spool/cse-lj1:
where 'rp' is remote printer name, 'rm' is remote host, and 'sd'
is spool
directory on you system.
As long as both systems are set up correctly, you should be able to print
over the internet. The big thing is setting up the machine with the
printer attached to accept print jobs from the client.
I've not tried the Samba solution.
Zane
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