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Skriven 2011-11-15 17:00:11 av Peter Brown
Ärende: Re: Connecting Windows 7 to OS/2 ver 4.52?
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From: Peter Brown <losepeteSPAM-ME-NOT@ntlworld.com>

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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