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Re: Connecting to NOVELL, USING its PRINTER
On Thu, 14 Mar 1996, Shay Rojansky wrote:
> > Is someone know if I can connect my Linux box to a Novell, and do remote
> > printing, ie. use its printers. If yes, HOW ?
> The first one, which I strongly recommend, is using ncpfs. It's a free
> The second one is getting Caldera. Caldera is a commercial distribution
> that adds many things, including interfaces, office tools, and Novell
> The third one (and the one I personally despise most) is buying Netware NFS.
Netware NFS is one of the great Novell crashers, as far as my tests go.
Caldera can give you fileaccess, but I have yet to find a printing
gateway on it. I have used a preview version of it, I suppose the full
version DOES support it, but that's a $100 solution.
as for OUR solution, it is a small winsock app called PSERVE, I suppose
you should be able to find it on TUCOWS or through shareware.com, we run
it on our RPRINTER station, but you can run it anywhere... it looks like
an LPD from the IP side, and as a windows app sending to the capture queue
on the windows side. we send from Netscape on our Linux, and it tunnels
smoothly to the Brother Postscript printer like a charm :-)
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