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From: thorh@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Thor Hallen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: PC-NFS / Windows 3 Compatibility
Keywords: NFS Win3 Networks Compatibility
Message-ID: <7629@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 90 23:16:34 GMT
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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  My previous posting of a work-around to access network printers with
PC-NFS and Windows 3.0 was sketchy so here is a more detailed description.
My version of PC-NFS is 3.01 with MS-DOS 4.01 but I don't think this
is critical:

  1. Change prt * to prt -T30 * in your autoexec.bat file.
  2. Run nfsconf and setup the network printer for print after 5 minutes.
     ( Printing will actually occur in 30 seconds because of step 1 above. )
  3. If you have a postscript printer, select the postscript option
     before exiting the nfsconf program.
  4. Start windows and configure your printer as connected to LPT2.OS2
     ( If you access your printer as LPT3: through PC-NFS, use an
      editor to define LPT3.OS2 in your win.ini file using the LPT2.OS2
      definition as a model. This port will then appear as an option when
      you run setup or the control panel. )

  This configuration will enable access to network printers directly from
applications as if the printer was local. As previously mentioned, Sun is
working on an update for windows 3 compatibility.

	Thor Hallen
	Tektronix, Inc.