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From: cliffb@cjbsys.bdb.com (cliff bedore)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and Printer-Sharing ???
Message-ID: <1991Jan5.134530.7865@cjbsys.bdb.com>
Date: 5 Jan 91 13:45:30 GMT
References: <1991Jan4.001756.11917@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de>
Organization: BDB Systems
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In article <1991Jan4.001756.11917@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de> horke@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de (Bernhard Kroenung) writes:
>Is there any possibility to share a printer between two machines runnig
>TCP/IP ??? Any hints ? Any PD-Programms ?
>
>  Ciao
>    Bernhard
>-- 
>Bernhard Kroenung, Bahnhofstr. 8, D-W6408 Ebersburg/Rhoen, Germany +49 6656 386
>horke@buchonia.rhoen.in-berlin.de sysop@fulmin.zer.sub.org Kronung@DGIHRZ01.BIT

Try something like cat filen | rcmd otherhost lp.

I use this all the time at work. you need to set either hosts.equiv or .rhosts
to make this work correctly. (You can set up a .rhosts for lp to maintain
security.


Cliff