Topic: msdos and printing

[Colin Mattoon]

Is the MSDOS TCP/IP client (running MSDOS 6.22) capable of sending print jobs to e-smith? File sharing works, but not printing. I cannot run Win 3.x or 9x for these apps, and I'd like to eliminate the printers on msdos workstations. It appears as if MSDOS never attempts to send print jobs to any spool other than the local msdos machine's.

[Charlie Brady]

Colin Mattoon wrote:

> Is the MSDOS TCP/IP client (running MSDOS 6.22) capable of
> sending print jobs to e-smith? File sharing works, but not
> printing. I cannot run Win 3.x or 9x for these apps, and I'd
> like to eliminate the printers on msdos workstations. It
> appears as if MSDOS never attempts to send print jobs to any
> spool other than the local msdos machine's.

Hi Colin,

I've never done it, but I believe that you can redirect a printer port from the DOS network client. Try "net help" and
see if you can see anything useful. Or go to your local bookshop and have a peek at the DOS client section of any Samba books you can find. And, of course, buy the one you like the look of.

Charlie

[Colin Mattoon]

Looks like "book time!"  I am beginning to believe that if ddos stands for "distributed denial of service," msdos must be an acronym for "microsoft's denial of service(s)."

But I will have msdos sending print jobs to e-smith/samba or my co-workers will die trying...

Colin

[Charlie Brady]

Colin Mattoon wrote:

> Looks like "book time!"  I am beginning to believe
> that if ddos stands for "distributed denial of
> service," msdos must be an acronym for "microsoft's
> denial of service(s)."
>
> But I will have msdos sending print jobs to e-smith/samba or
> my co-workers will die trying...

Try "net use LPTn: \serverprintername" (for n = 0 through 9).

Charlie

[Colin Mattoon]

Thanks, Charlie -- I'll give it a shot.