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From: mizener@demon.siemens.com (Jeff Mizener)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Anyone Running A LaserMaster Card W/Win3 & PC-NFS??
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Date: 29 Jan 91 22:47:05 GMT
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Organization: Siemens Energy and Automation, Raleigh, NC
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Howdy--

Y'all have answered so many other questions, howabout this, admittedly
obscure one:

We have a LaserMaster card (controls a laser printer by squirting the
hi-rez image in the video port) and will be getting a PC-NFS network.

The good folks at LM don't know about/don't want to support PC-NFS stuff
and say their printer-sharing 'network' (LMNet) won't work -- it's gotta
be netbios compatible (the network under which LMNet software runs, that is).
The windows LM driver simply "prints" to a file on a specified network device
and the print server (with the LM card in it) checks for these print files, 
snarfs them up and prints them.  Simple -- but if it uses any special calls
(I don't know anything more about what's going on under the skin), we're
out of luck, or?

Has anyone made this work??  I ask here because
all of our applications that use the LM are Windows applications and we
will all keep running Win3 after we go on-line to the server.

Pls respond to me at this address:  jm@sead.siemens.com  (if possible).

Thanks--

Jeff Mizener
Siemens E&A, Electrical Apparatus Division, Raleigh, NC