Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!dptspd!iquery!matt
From: matt@iquery.UUCP (Matt Reedy)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Using local printer with TCP/IP
Summary: Not under MS-DOS
Keywords: TCP/IP on PC, Local Printer
Message-ID: <360@iquery.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jul 90 13:42:47 GMT
References: <5807@balu.UUCP>
Followup-To: comp.dcom.lans
Organization: Programmed Intelligence, San Antonio
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In article <5807@balu.UUCP> eing@cosmo.UUCP (Hubert Eing/Hubert Eing Textilveredlung) writes:
>I want to connect a PC under MS-DOS over a TCP/IP connection
>to a Unix Host under 386/ix from Interactive with 386/ix TCP/IP.
>Is it possible to use the local printer on the PC as a UNIX printer ?

Not that I know of using standard TCP/IP and/or PC-NFS.  The way printer 
sharing is implemented under UNIX TCP/IP is via a daemon that talks with 
whoever wants to print on that machine's printer.  Since MS-DOS is single-
tasking (unless you consider TSR's to be a crude form of multi-tasking) there 
is not an easy way to do this. 

However, MS-DOS hackers are very clever and there may someone out there
who has written a TSR to do something like this.

matt
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