From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 30 07:57:01 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA12989 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from teller.asd.banctec.com (banctec.clark.net [168.143.2.209]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA12982 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:56:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rjs@localhost) by teller.asd.banctec.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA14962; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:59:18 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:59:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Ron Steele To: Garth Kidd cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Net connected printer In-Reply-To: <960430114551.ZM2871@jolt.systems.sa.gov.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 30 Apr 1996, Garth Kidd wrote: > > From: "Gary Palmer" > > Subject: > > > > Ron Steele wrote in message ID > > : > > > >> OK, how about ftp? We have a LJ4 that you can print to by ftp. The > >> new LJ5 does not seem to support this. Is there a way to enable it. > > > > That I have never seen. Anyone else care to comment? > > You can configure them with a combination of BOOTP and TFTP. Maybe he's > thinking of that. > Not a chance. I am guessing this is a non-HP network card in the LJ4. You just ftp to it, using anything for the userid, no password is reqested, and put your file. Out comes the paper. It's really nice when you are printing from a PC and don't want to deal with the Novell server. Ron