Firefox/6.0.2 SeaMonkey/2.3.3   
   From: Peter Brown    
      
   Hi Victor   
      
   Victor Bien wrote:   
   > Peter Brown wrote:   
   >> Hi Victor   
   >>   
   >> Victor Bien wrote:   
   >>> I have had a Windows XP computer networked to my OS/2 computer for   
   >>> years. I access the volumes and print on the attached printer. Now I   
   >>> want to move to Win7. Apart from the huge reinstall of applications I   
   >>> have to do I in the Windows environment I have a conceptual blockage   
   >>> with working out how to retain that connection if possible?   
   >>>   
   >>> XP connects because I have Netbeui working on it. Netbeui is not   
   >>> available for Win7. I have never understood SAMBA or how to get it to   
   >>> work.   
   >>>   
   >>> Another option is NFS but the reading and the potential cut and try   
   >>> seems it will blow out.   
   >>>   
   >>> Anyone here can offer some clues?   
   >>>   
   >>> Thanks,   
   >>>   
   >>> Victor Bien   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> For sharing files you could try ftp - FireFTP is a useful addon to   
   >> Firefox/Seamonkey.   
   >>   
   >> Does the printer have an ip address or is it a shared printer?   
   >   
   > It's a shared printer. I use FTP for file access. I run the OS/2 FTP   
   > server and swap files from a Vista laptop which won't connect via   
   > Windows networking. I use to make the FTP server available to the   
   > internet to allow fetching files when I'm at client's sites but was so   
   > troubled by "hammering" - troublemakers making repeated attempts to   
   > login and threatening havoc, I deleted the port forwarding to the OS/2   
   > FTP. I now safely FTP within my LAN only. (I installed a secure FTP   
   > server on my XP machine - it gets hammered as well but it has an   
   > anti-hammering facility to throw the troublemakers off).   
   >   
   > I could buy a small print server with a tcp/ip connection I suppose.   
   > I've never tried to print from OS/2 to a print server. Can I assume   
   > it'll all be straightforward. That'll just mean that trying to connect   
   > the OS/2 to the Windows world is all getting too hard?   
   >   
   >   
      
   The only 2 print servers I have used with OS/2 systems have been built    
   into routers and both worked well using the OS/2 SLPR printer port    
   configured with the print server ip address and port name.   
      
   They both worked fine with eCUPS as well.   
      
   I guess you should be asking if anyone knows a current print server that    
   definitely works - and if there are any that do not work - with OS/2    
   systems.   
      
      
   Regards   
      
   Pete   
      
      
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