Re: Putting a printer (LJ IIIp) on a network?

From: Allodoxaphobia (bit-bucket_at_config.com)
Date: 03/05/05 

Date: 5 Mar 2005 22:11:17 GMT

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:05:07 -0500, Bill M wrote:
> Hi
> I will give some history/background/devices first and then ask my
> question.
>
> Home Office setup
> Machine #1 (oldest) 192.168.2.37
> Pentium Pro 200 Hz, 128 MB RAM, OS/2 Warp 4 w/fp 10, 3Com NIC
>
> Machine #2 192.168.2.10
> AMD Athalon 1Gig Hz, 256 MB Ram, MandrakeLinux 10.1 OE power
> pack, 3Com NIC
>
> SMC Barricade 4 port router 192.168.2.1 - Cable modem (Comcast
> 4 input ports/switches, one WAN output port, and one parallel
> port.
>
> HP LaserJet IIIp - parallel port only
>
> I spent 2 years off and on trying to get these two machines to
> talk to each other, using Samba & IBM peer to peer, with much
> help from newsgroup people, no luck in getting the proper
> combination. The main thing that is lacking is my experience
> with networks. In fact at this time I don't remember the
> password for the OS/2 machine. It is out of a senior citizens
> budget to have a $125 per hour person come in to set them up -
> even if I found someone that speaks "Linux" and "OS/2"
>
> I have both machines going on the internet thru the router.
> I can ping the other machine or the router from the other
> machine.
>
> I have had my printer on an A/B switch over these years and the
> switch/cables are getting flaky. The SMC Barricade has a
> parallel port built in.
>
> Question : Is it possible to have the printer use barricade for
> switching between machine, rather than the A/B switch?

Another solution: Run lpd on the OS/2 box, and configure cups
on the linux box to print to the remote OS/2 printer. Of course,
the OS/2 box'll have to be powered up to use the printer from the
linux box.

That's the way I use one of the printers here: An HP LJ III on a
OS/2 Warp 4.0 box running lpd. In cups it is shown as:
 
 |Description: lpt on BLUE
 |Location: BLUE
 |Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
 |Device URI: lpd://192.168.0.4/Printer

HTH
Jonesy 

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