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From: bkc@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Brad Clements)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: LANspace and LANspool for Novell ne (also NOVELL->LPR)
Message-ID: <1989Oct25.182255.19113@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 89 18:22:55 GMT
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From article <853@cwjcc.CWRU.Edu>, by lim@ns.CWRU.EDU (Hock Koon Lim):
> In article <114400008@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> jsa00564@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>We have been using LANSpool to control around 12 non-dedicated print servers
>>for well over a year now.  The program works great, especially since the 
>>latest version, which came out last Jan., doesn't rely on hardware (IRQ7)
>>interrupts for the printer...  This means that almost any parallel port will
>>work.   We haven't had any problems with the software, except for an 
>>occasional VAP connection failure (printing stops, a simple reboot cures).
>>
> 
>   Is anyone doing the spooling over the network to the unix print spool area?
> 
Clarkson has an alpha version of a Novell to Unix LPR gateway program.  The TCP portion is
based on NCSA Telnet libraries. It was developed on Novell SFT 2.15, but should work
on advanced netware 2.15, and possibly 2.1. Probably won't work under 2.0a or earlier.

The program will eventually be given away the same as our version of NCSA Telnet, except that
we will not be releasing source code (due to the nature of our agreements with Novell).

It actually works, and we will be beating on it over the next few months. It supports multiple
print queues, requires a dedicated PC to act as a gateway. Also, due to the nature of the
packet driver version of IPX, it requires Novell networks to have been 'econfiged'.

I'll make an announcement when its ready.


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| Brad Clements          bkc@omnigate.clarkson.edu        bkc@clutx.bitnet 
| Network Engineer       Clarkson University              (315)268-2292