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   From: "David H. Durgee"    
      
   Peter Brown wrote:   
   > 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   
      
   I don't know how current it is, but I use a Zonet ZPS2102 here on my    
   LAN.  I have Warp Server, eCS 1.03, eCS 1.2, Linux Mint 8 and 11 systems    
   on the LAN and all can make use of the print server and the printer    
   connected to it.   
      
   I chose the Zonet ZPS2102 in particular as it had a USB-2 port on it and    
   I wanted to be able to drive the printer, a Brother HL-5050, at full    
   speed from older systems that did not have such support.  I could also    
   connect two additional printers to the server, but have no need at this    
   point to do so.   
      
   Dave   
      
   Dave   
      
      
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