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- From: johnk@gordian.com (John Kalucki)
- Subject: Re: Anyone know of a good LPR/LPD Server?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.002814.1015@gordian.com>
- Sender: news@gordian.com
- Organization: Gordian; Costa Mesa, CA
- References: <16B5BE8CE.MACE@HDQCMS2H.UTSD.ATT.COM>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 00:28:14 GMT
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- In article <16B5BE8CE.MACE@HDQCMS2H.UTSD.ATT.COM>, MACE@HDQCMS2H.UTSD.ATT.COM writes:
- >We have 10 LaserJet printers which we would like to connect to a LPD
- >server, for access by our OS/2, DOS/Windows and IBM VM/CMS users.
- >
- >We would rather not use LPD on various machines directly connected to
- >the printers, since we would lose access to the printer when the machine
- >went down (was re-booted or powered off).
- >
- >The connections would be serial (RS-232), with one connection being
- >parallel.
- >
- >We have looked at the Lantronix equipment, but that does not really
- >offer LPD; since we have a diverse user community, we want to use the
- >LPR and LPRMON software that is provided with the TCP/IP implementations.
-
- Hmm. That's funny. I have the Lantronix EPS1 here that does LPD
- and it works fine.
-
-
- -John Kalucki
- johnk@gordian.com
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