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From: clive@asis.unimelb.EDU.AU (Clive Newall)
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Subject: Printing from Unix -> Banyan
Keywords: printing,networks,unix,banyan
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Date: 21 Feb 91 06:29:07 GMT
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We have a large installed base of Banyan lans (~40+ servers) with numerous
printers accessible from each PC on the Banyan network.

We also have several central administrative computing systems, running on
various flavours of Unix systems.

Problem: How to provide access to those printers on the Banyan network (ie:
where the users are) from the central systems? The printers must remain
accessible from Banyan via the PCs LPTx. 

Has anyone else tackled this? Solved this?

Note: Using terminal emulators (either kermit or FTP softwares' telnet) and
using the print-through facilities of a vt100 is NOT an option. We've tried
that, but it only allows access to ONE printer (LPT1) - several applications
will need access to several printers (special forms etc.)

Send respones to me. I'll summarise to the net if there is any interest.

Clive Newall			E-mail: clive@asis.unimelb.EDU.AU
Information Technology Services (ASIS), University of Melbourne.


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