Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!gatech!gitpyr!stat!curci From: curci@stat.uucp (Ray Curci (scri)) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Decnet, VMS <==> Ultrix connection questions Message-ID: <7721@pyr.gatech.EDU> Date: 26 Mar 89 01:53:34 GMT References: <88339@felix.UUCP> <115@crltrx.crl.dec.com> Sender: news@pyr.gatech.EDU Reply-To: curci@stat.fsu.edu (Ray Curci (scri)) Organization: Dept. of Statistics, Florida State Univ. Lines: 35 >In article <115@crltrx.crl.dec.com> treese@crl.dec.com.UUCP (Win Treese) writes: >>In article <88339@felix.UUCP> hogue@hsi.UUCP (Jim Hogue) writes: >>>Reply-to: hogue@hsi.UUCP (Jim Hogue) >>> >>Yes, it provides the facility; execute SET HOST on VMS. >> >>If the printers are really physically connected to the VMS machine, it's >>a little tricky. >> >>Win Treese Cambridge Research Lab >>treese@crl.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==- The above solution will work with interactive terminal logins, but only with DEC equipment. Also, the suggestion of using DCP to copy files to be printed and a DCL command file to send the data to the printer is very kludgy at best. I have implemented a daemon that runs on our VMS machines to look in a special world writable directory every few minutes queueing files to the printers if any are found. A much cleaner solution is to buy SRI MULTINET (contact: postmaster@tgv.com) for your VMS systems. With MULTINET, you can use RLOGIN and TELNET from any machine to reach any other machine (Ultrix comes with rlogin and telnet). The BSD-style remote printer software that comes with ultrix will talk to MULTINET's lpd-server to access any of the VMS printers. This solution also has the advantage that UNIX machines from other vendors (SUN, HP, Apollo, NeXT, IRIS, ...) can be integrated very smoothly in the future into the network. Another advantage is that you can also connect inexpensive IBM PC/XT/AT/PS2s and MACs with ethernet boards to provide low-end workstations using the public domain software from NCSA and/or MIT which gives you the ability to do terminal logins onto any machines and very fast file transfer capability. ray curci