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   From: Peter Brown    
      
   Hi Victor   
      
   Victor Bien wrote:   
   > David H. Durgee wrote:   
   >> 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   
   >   
   > I read up on this particular print server but am rather discouraged to   
   > chase it. The reviews out there are not good.   
   >   
   > I tried to find some discussion about what makes one print server better   
   > than another one but it will take a lot of time to get a good handle on   
   > the subject.   
   >   
   > My understanding of a print server is almost a complete vacuum! How do   
   > they work? How do they differ one from the other?   
   >   
   > At the simplest would the thing take bytes from the LAN cable and just   
   > past it through to the USB port? If that is the case why do some of them   
   > have to have Windows driver installed? If there is such an animal as a   
   > "dumb" print server OS/2 could print to it couldn't it? I mean the   
   > spooler and the OS/2 printer driver (Lexmark E310 in my case) would just   
   > shove the data out through the network port instead of the USB port I'm   
   > presently using, find the IP address of the print server and then just   
   > flow through it to the printer and you have your printouts?   
   >   
   > You get my drift? What criteria do I use to ascertain which print server   
   > to try? I may try to buy one via eBay. I do have a local "corner shop   
   > computer shop" who lets me try out gear on try and see basis and perhaps   
   > I could identify a suitable one that way. My fundamental problem is I   
   > don't know how a print server works! I don't know what I'm looking for!   
   >   
   > If I can get my OS/2 computer to print through a print server and I can   
   > swap files with Filezilla and the OS/2 FTP server then my problem to   
   > keep it ticking away with any Windows computer will be solved.   
   >   
   > Victor Bien   
   >   
      
      
      
   If the print server claims to work with linux/cups or only needs a    
   printer port installed in Windows it should work with OS/2 - you may    
   need to install the Windows printer port software simply to identify the    
   print server port address though.   
      
   Regards   
      
   Pete   
      
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