Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up a shared printer

2012-05-16 Thread nospam
A very good Wiki page on printing with netcat! Netcat can be used in many ways. I find connecting to a command shell on a Windows PC and transfering files an interesting application. I did not have a chance to test that yet though. If a windows printer is configured to be used from that

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up a shared printer

2012-05-14 Thread Jim Hall
On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.com wrote: On 5/6/2012 4:10 PM, nospam wrote: Very interesting. I suggest you make a FreeDOS Wiki page from this information. Georg It is just a trick that I found.  I was waiting to do a more comprehensive writeup on

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up a shared printer

2012-05-14 Thread Bret Johnson
While only indirectly related to mtcp and netcat, I accidentally ran across this site recently: http://lspppacm.narod.ru It creates a DOS packet driver using a ppp connection through a USB modem. I haven't tried it (don't have a USB modem), but I think it's at least interesting, if not

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up a shared printer

2012-05-07 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 5/7/2012 6:32 PM, dmccunney wrote: On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Michael B. Brutman mbbrut...@brutman.com wrote: Netcat is one of the best kept secrets in the world of networking. You can use it to send email, printer files, or any arbitrary data from one machine to another machine.

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up a shared printer

2012-05-06 Thread Michael B. Brutman
If your network attached printer is listening on TCP/IP port 9100 (HP JetDirect protocol) and your DOS program can generate something the printer can understand, then do the following: - Print your printer output to a file - Send the file to the printer using this command: nc -target

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up a shared printer

2012-05-06 Thread nospam
If your network attached printer is listening on TCP/IP port 9100 (HP JetDirect protocol) and your DOS program can generate something the printer can understand, then do the following: - Print your printer output to a file - Send the file to the printer using this command: nc -target

Re: [Freedos-user] Setting up a shared printer

2012-05-06 Thread Michael B. Brutman
On 5/6/2012 4:10 PM, nospam wrote: Very interesting. I suggest you make a FreeDOS Wiki page from this information. Georg It is just a trick that I found. I was waiting to do a more comprehensive writeup on network printing until after I write an LPR daemon. Netcat is one of the best kept