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From: dmuntz@caen.engin.umich.edu (Daniel A Muntz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: PC-NFS printing problems
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 2 Jun 89 03:07:30 GMT
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Here at the UofM we have several IBM XT's running PC-NFS with the server
being a Sun3/280 running SunOS 4.0.1.  Under both PC-NFS 2.0 and 3.0, text
destined for the printer instead shows up on the monitor of the XT.  The
printing was attempted using standard passthrough mode with printing being
held until the "hot-key" is pressed.  The text was sent to the printer
with the command:  

     type somefile > lpt1:

a "net use lpt1: \\<server>\<printerq>" was done.
Has anyone else experienced this problem? (and if so, are there any
solutions?)

  -Dan Muntz
   dmuntz@caen.engin.umich.edu