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Date:	Tue, 2 Oct 2001 08:04:49 PDT
From:	Steve Carter <scarter@vcnet.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: network printers

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I did not. Instead I set up an lpr printer. It simply
prints to a pre-configured ip address where there
happens to be a print server. It's the logical equivalent
of another LPT port, but on the ethernet network instead.

In the case of the SMC, that's 192.168.123.254,
also the gateway address. Also, I chose Fixed IP, so I'd
know exactly where everything was and not have to mess
with naming the resources. (I've got wife's windows
machine to contend with too.) On a small (tiny) network
like mine, it's no drawback.

--Steve

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On 10/2/01, Peter Skye wrote, in part:
>==========================================
>>From the new VOICE issue
>(http://www.os2voice.org/VNL/past_issues/VNL1001H/vnewsft.htm):
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> Oleg V.Cat suggested the following when someone asked on
> the eComStation mail list how to print to a TCP/IP printer:
>
> Try the following:
>
> SET LPR_SERVER=nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
> SET LPR_PRINTER=lp
> SET USER=userid
> start lprmon -b LPT1
>
> This transfers all output from port LPT1 to printer
> with name "lp" on server with tcp/ip nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn
>_____
>
>I have an SMC firewall box with a printer port. I haven't used the
>printer port yet -- is the above info something I need to use with it?
>
>- Peter
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