Sender: root AT snipe DOT prod DOT itd DOT earthlink DOT net Message-ID: <3AA53C02.D33877F1@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 12:35:30 -0700 From: Thomas Webb Organization: WordWonder.Com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: question References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 16 DOT 19910306080242 DOT 2d5f0496 AT tellus DOT swip DOT net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com DOS LanManager will run over DRDOS, and is downloadable free from Microsoft. It provides direct connectivity between DRDOS/Windows3x and Win95 via smb protcol (Network Neighborhood) It's not a bad way to go if you have a mix of DRDOS and Windoze machines on the same network. Works fine with Samba/Linux also Bernie wrote: > > Matthias wrote: > >You can share printers with PNW as well as with NetWare. You need > >to create print queues on the server (where the printers are physically > >connected), and can then directly print into these queue from the > >applications on the client (if they support printing in queues), or you can > >capture ports LPT1:..LPT3: and redirect everything that is send to these > >devices into the networking queues. > > Also worth to note is that if you want to print from Windows (3.x - I > haven't tried with Win9x and it's reported to not work) you need to choose > a port (LPT1 for instance) to be redirected to the printer on the network > (this is easiest added to autoexec.bat). To be able to print you will then > need to install the printer drivers in Windows and choose the port as > LPTx.DOS (LPT1.DOS in this case). > //Bernie -- Tom Webb Come visit at http://wordwonder.com