Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!micor!latour!ecicrl!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: LP as shared resource for 3B2s
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.020837.15416@eci386.uucp>
Date: 31 Jan 91 02:08:37 GMT
References: <30300001@inmet>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: Elegant Communications, Inc.
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In article <30300001@inmet> pcasey@inmet.inmet.com writes:
> I am trying to set up a laser printer connected to a 3b2 as
> a shared resource so another 3b2 on the network can use it.
> From what I have read, the Remote File Sharing Utilities (RFS) are
> what is needed to accomplish this. Unfortunately, the documentation
> is pretty vague if you aren't using STARLAN as your "transport
> provider", which I'm not. Our 3b2s have Wollongong TCP/IP WIN3B
> networking software, which I assume would be considered the machines
> transport provider.

If you can run UUCP over WIN3b, I'd suggest using one of the many
remote_lp scripts which uux lp on the remote system.  You could also
use remsh if it works.  RFS for this purpose is over-kill.
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							Greg A. Woods
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