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From: jqj@uoregon.uoregon.edu (JQ Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: shared PC printers and TCP/IP
Message-ID: <2912@uoregon.uoregon.edu>
Date: 2 Oct 88 21:39:50 GMT
Reply-To: jqj@drizzle.UUCP (JQ Johnson)
Organization: University of Oregon, Computer Science, Eugene OR
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I am looking for a public domain or very cheap way to share printers
attached to PCs in a TCP/IP and Ethernet environment.  Specifically, I
have a group of PC users, all of whom have Ethernet cards and routinely
use NCSA Telnet.  They wish to share local printers.  I am aware of
various products for Novell work groups that allow such printer
sharing; most involve a small TSR that live on the PC and require a
Novell file server to provide spooling and serialization.  Is there
anything similar for the TCP/IP world (I have available a Unix file
server, so it would be enough to have a TSR client that redirects
printer output via FTP or rcp to the Unix server).

Note that it is possible to print on a PC running NCSA Telnet since
NCSA Telnet includes an FTP server -- just ftp a file to prn or
whatever on that PC.  What is missing, it would seem, is the client
side.