From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 17 11:18:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA29150 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:18:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA29144 for ; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 11:17:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA03007; Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:08:27 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199601171908.MAA03007@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: printing with pcnfs To: wes@btsslc.com (Wes Peters) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 12:08:27 -0700 (MST) Cc: ron@infi.net, terry@lambert.org, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199601171800.AA22220@park.uvsc.edu> from "Wes Peters" at Jan 17, 96 11:05:59 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > On Sun, 14 Jan 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > The PCNFS "net use" for printers established a redirection for the > > local printer to the remote host using lpr protocol. > > Nope. PC-NFS printing uses an nfs mount to spool files to the server, > then a command to pcnfsd on the server system to print the file. You > need to make sure pcnfsd is running on your printer server system, and > then review the pcnfsd configuration file to make sure your printer > has been configured there. You have got to be kidding. I'm positive I set one up to use LPR protocol -- it was using a VMS system as a host. Are you sure you aren't thinking of Wollongong's stuff instead of Sun's? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.