Windows, std OS in Hell - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Nov 2001

On Nov 10, 13:35, Carlos Murillo wrote:
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  At 06:48 PM 11/9/01 GMT, Pete wrote:
 On Nov 9,  9:46, Bill Pechter wrote:
  ---- On Fri, 09 Nov 2001, Geoff Reed
(geoffr(a)zipcon.net) wrote:
 Most of the third party add on printer servers come with an lpr
 capability for Win9x and there's a shareware one on Simtel for
 Windows 3.x with a winsock.

 Lan Workplace also had one from Novell. 
You can also do it from any version of PCNFS. 
 If I remember correctly, you need NIS in your
 network in order to be able to use PCNFS, right?
 I seem to recall that I did not choose PCNFS
 because of that several years ago. 
You need NFS on the server, but not NIS, thank goodness.  Anything that can
check the password for a username will do (eg /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow).

The way printing with PCNFS works is that your print server authenticates
with something running pcnfsd, then saves the file to be printed to a spool
directory on the server (needn't be the same server), and lastly sends a
command to the server to say "please print that".  That's somewhat
oversimplified, but I think you'll get the gist.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York