David,
If I understand you correctly, you want lpr to work on WinXX.
Take a look at the website for the CSIRO in Australia. I dont have a URL
handy, but www.csiro.au is a guess. They wrote a program called PMLPR,
which is a spooler that runs on WinXX.
BTW. What does 'sth' mean?
Regards,
Kenneth
On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, David Krings wrote:
> Hi to all and thank you for everyone answering on my request, but i have
> the fear that sth is misunderstood.
>
> The echo was: use SAMBA ! I know that i will have to use samba to access
> windows resources,
>
> but if it is 1:1 to the way a W95 only network acts then it won't work. I
> tried it out to have the printer being a network printer on a net with two
> W95 systems. The client can't get access to the printer attached to the
> server, because the printer software requests a direct connection to the
> printer and just passing it through to a lpt port that is linked to a
> network path won't start the software driver on the server.
> What i am looking for is to connect the printer via a spooler running on
> the W95 printer server and then access the spooler over the network and not
> the printer directly. The spooler must then be able to pass the print job
> to the driver in a way as if it is a app like word, so that the driver
> software "thinks" it is sth from the same machine.
>
> Do you know what i mean ?
>
>
> Greez
>
> Dave
>
>
>
