Original Question:
Has anyone tried to set it up so that you can print to a printer
attached to a Novell network from a SC2000 running 2.3 (i don't
think the machine matters, it's the OS)? I would prefer to add the
printer as if it was on a remote machine.
Since I've gotten answers that make sense, and a few 'me too's, i'll
send out the answers I've gotten. If I get more detailed ones later
I'll repost the SUMMARY.
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From: Glenn.Satchell@uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)
>Yep, works fine. You need to install Flex-IP and the NFS NLM on the Novell
>system, then you just treat it as a remote print server as if it was
>another unix box running lpd. On the Novell box you must set up your
>Sun as a "trusted host". For this reason I normally set up one Sun as a
>gateway for all the rest. All the workstations have my Sun server as
>the remote printer machine, then this server has the Novell box as the
>remote printer. If you use admintool to set it up the remote printer is
>BSD rather than System V.
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From: Birger.Wathne@vest.sdata.no (Birger A. Wathne)
>If lpd queues have been set up on the Novell side (I don't know more about
>this, but I know it's possible), you just fire up admintool, and set up
>the printer as a remote printer on a BSD system.
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From: Mjphillips@Microserve.com (Mjphillips)
>YES,
>WE'RE RUNNING SOLARIS 2.3 ON A SPARC CENTER 1000 & NOVELL 3.11 ON A
>486/66. VIA NFS, WE WERE ABLE TO SET UP REMOTE PRINTING. IT ALSO WORKS IN
>REVERSE, PRINTING FROM THE NOVELL NETWORK TO THE UNIX SIDE.
>IT'S NOT HARD TO SETUP EITHER. IF I CAN DO IT, ANYONE CAN.
[my note: Argh, Don't yell quite so loud ;-)]
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From: Wanda Perrier <PerrierW@smtp.lmv.usace.army.mil>
>All my Unix printers are Novell printers. We are using Netware NFS
>services which allow you to make Netware printers available to users of
>remote computers. It uses the lpd protocol.
>The printers are defined in 2.3 as remote printers. We have not
>experienced any problems with this setup. The Novell Netware NFS
>Supervisor's Guide provides a good guide for setting this up.
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From: sozoa@atmel.com (Steve Ozoa)
>We haven't really tried that, but our solution was to put the printers on
>ethernet, to make them accessible to both worlds.
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MeToo's
From: Simon Gibbons <simong@aifs.org.au>
From: jmcphers@bio.ri.ccf.org (Joseph McPherson)
From: whitelyt@focushope.edu (Ted Whitely)
From: "Brian T. Wightman" <wightman@sol.acs.uwosh.edu>
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