Hello, I have notice that there has been some discussion on this point and I may be able to help. Background: I am a college teacher and my Final Semester group has developed a Router based on similar technology to ShareTheNet. Their project includes TCP/IP and IPX routing plus facilities to control these features via a Web Browser. I asked the team to include a Print Server. Since the system ran entirely in RAM this meant that a lot of RAM would be needed if LPD was to be used. Having installed and used PPRD200, a DOS LPD Server by Ken Yap, in our staff room I thought that a similar server for the student's router project would be useful. This server does NO spooling - it is done at the workstations. This is not a problem since in most cases the print data is simply spooled from a file at the local workstation to another spool file at the server. This seems to work fine on lightly loaded networks. I used a skeleton LPD server that I picked up "off the net" and massaged it into an RFC1179 LPD server that does NOT spool on the server PC and gives access to only one printer. There are two print ques (for lack of a better description) - one named "lp" that we use for Linux Printing and one named "nt" for (you guessed it) Windows NT Printing. Both pass RAW data to the printer, the only difference is that the "lp" que adds a FormFeed at the end of the document. The output device is always /dev/lp. This may be set to whatever real printer port you wish using a link. The whole server program takes up less than 10K (yes 10K) and provides the limited print functionality to suit our lab network, and I suspect most home and small office applications. If anyone is interested I will email a copy of the source. There is no documentation other than the source - but then it doesn't really need it. Cheers, Steve Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ozemail.com.au/~smflynn _______________________________________________ ShareTheNet maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.webserv.com/mailman/listinfo/sharethenet
