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From: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: ethernet printer sharing
Message-ID: <969@boing.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 91 00:33:19 GMT
Reply-To: dale@boing.UUCP (Dale Luck)
Organization: Boing, Milpitas, Ca.
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If any of you have a need to share printers amongst
several users in an Amiga ONLY network, this is what
we do.

Syndesis has a new print spool utility that comes with
TSSnet that allows you send files from your machine to
a remote machine on the ethernet and have them dumped to
the printer. The printer can be defined to be par: or prt:
or whatever. You must have set aside a spool area on the
"printer server" amiga for the incoming files to reside
while they are being sent to the physical printer.

Also, we have a regular dot matrix printer that is on the
other local machine. (TSSnet is full peer to peer in this respect)
so we have printers distributed through out our network.
And we can access any one of them from any Amiga.

This software comes with the new release of TSSnet. All you
need in terms of hardware is the A2065 ethernet card and
the cabling. You do not need the AS225 tcp/ip software.

This is example command line we type into the nft window.
NFT=Network File Transfer.

>print t:test.ps moe::

t:test.ps is a postscript file output from pagestream or
ppage. and moe:: is the name of the Amiga that has the
printer attached to it's parallel port. After typing the command
in, the machine without a printer contacts moe:: and sends
it the file t:test.ps   moe:: saves it away in a spool directory
and then copies it to par:

No more switch boxes, runs of large bulky parallel cable.
No more forgetting to switch the printer to the right
machine. It is a bit of investment in hardware and software
but it sure makes life a lot easier.

Oh ya, there are other things you can use the TSSnet software
for besides printer sharing.  But printer sharing is what we
use all the time.

Dale Luck

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Dale Luck     GfxBase/Boing, Inc.
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