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Title: Serial Printer on COM1 ?
Post by: gbentley on October 23, 2007, 04:53:36 PM

Serial Com Ports arent listed in server manager pulldown for location. Is this possible?

Its a dot matrix Epson for 3 part tractor paper and is hooked up to the serial port on
the existing box ....

Thanks in advance for any help ...

Title: Re: Serial Printer on COM1 ?
Post by: CharlieBrady on October 23, 2007, 10:53:06 PM

Quote from: gbentley on October 23, 2007, 04:53:36 PM

Serial Com Ports arent listed in server manager pulldown for location. Is this possible?

It's probably possible, but you'd need to work out how to do it yourself. You'll need documentation for LPRng, and maybe a custom template.

Title: Re: Serial Printer on COM1 ?
Post by: gbentley on October 26, 2007, 11:46:18 AM

The printer had Parallel as well. I put a PCI Parallel card in the server. The chip on it was 'Sun 1888' - the doco mentions Linux.

http://www.sunix.com.tw/it/en/Product_Detail.php?cate=2&class_a_id=34&sid=364

SME picked it up as 'PC-Style Paraport1' (the onboard being Paraport0)

Amazingly it worked as LPT2 - even though the port reported by dmesg was '8400' ie totally non standard for LPT2 which I think is 378 ?