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Date:	Mon, 18 Mar 2002 22:01:40 PST7
From:	"J. R. Fox" <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
To:	scoug-general@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-General: Re: Digi + TCP/IP printing

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Steve Carter wrote:

> >Thanks again for the heads up on this. So the cabling becomes what --
> >Computer ==> Hub ==> Digi ==> Printer, instead of Computer ==> Printer ?
> >Ethernet cable replacing Parallel printer cable ?
>
> Yes. And the NIC IRQ serves any number of newtorked printers. IRQ 7
> is now free for whatever and the parallel port is free for a dongle,
> or a ZIP, or ....

So much the better. I'm looking forward to the network cabling presentation -- this
stuff really confuses me.

> >Which file is the latest firmware, by the way ?
>
> file is: 34fp621.CHX, 554 KB, dated 11Jan2002 (internal file date is earlier, 09Jan)

Thanx.

> >> Need I mention? OS/2 comes with TCP/IP printing -- nothing else needed.
> >Good. But we'd need to enable something or other, I imagine.
>
> You must enable (and setup) lpr/lpd printing in the TCP/IP notebook. 8 are enabled
> by default. Also, you must start the lprportd daemon (in the TCP/IP notebook).

Are these among the particular daemons that increase your port vulnerability ? I have a
firewall, but . . . . Also, I'm wondering how this affects the set of printer drivers
one has installed. Will I still be using the LaserJet driver to print thru, or the
LexMark / Xerox PCL driver, for example ? Does anything change in the use of these ? I
have some legacy DOS app.s too, which heretofore have used their own individual printer
drivers, rather than the OS/2 system-wide ones. Will I still be able to send those print
jobs to LPT1 or LPT2 (or functional equivalents) ? If the nomenclature changes . . .
well, I don't think these app.s understand anything besides LPT1 or 2.

Jordan

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