On Nov 10, 13:35, Carlos Murillo wrote:
> At 06:48 PM 11/9/01 GMT, Pete wrote:
> >On Nov 9, 9:46, Bill Pechter wrote:
> >> ---- On Fri, 09 Nov 2001, Geoff Reed (geoffr_at_zipcon.net) wrote:
> >> Most of the third party add on printer servers come with an lpr
> >> capability for Win9x and there's a shareware one on Simtel for
> >> Windows 3.x with a winsock.
> >>
> >> Lan Workplace also had one from Novell.
> >
> >You can also do it from any version of PCNFS.
>
> If I remember correctly, you need NIS in your
> network in order to be able to use PCNFS, right?
> I seem to recall that I did not choose PCNFS
> because of that several years ago.
You need NFS on the server, but not NIS, thank goodness. Anything that can
check the password for a username will do (eg /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow).
The way printing with PCNFS works is that your print server authenticates
with something running pcnfsd, then saves the file to be printed to a spool
directory on the server (needn't be the same server), and lastly sends a
command to the server to say "please print that". That's somewhat
oversimplified, but I think you'll get the gist.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York
Received on Sat Nov 10 2001 - 19:21:36 GMT