Hello, do you have some machine in the network, that would be able to "share" the printer via Microsoft networking? (AKA Samba or CIFS in the Linux parlance.)
This is a recurring topic. LPT is originally a physical local port, a DB25 female on the PC, against a 37pin Centronics on the printer. Internally it's a parallel port of sorts (i8255), visible at IO address 0x378, optionally using an IRQ or even DMA. In DOS, the port is also visible as an LPT revice (LPT1, LPT2 etc). There are ways to create a "virtual" LPT device by installing a driver. Which will allow you to relay the print job over a network to a server. It takes some know how. https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/freedos-user/thread/SJ2PR20M B6360EE7C2B9251C040BE42CCA2B62%40SJ2PR20MB6360.namprd20.prod.outlook.c om/#msg58800175 http://support.fccps.cz/download/adv/frr/cups_howto/cups_howto.htm#dos Frank _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
