Re: Interesting Problem: VT420

[GURJEET SINGH <gurjeet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Thanx Manas,

I do agree that samba is a solution but what if there are two or three
dozen such machines  each accessing an application on the UNIX host & want
to get a printout of some results on to their win printer. Like some
central stock query report or something. 

Then how do you proceed.

Regards,
gurjeet singh


On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, manas garg wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, GURJEET SINGH wrote:
> > 
> > if you telnet to the UNIX host from the WIN95 M/C  & run the standard
> > 'lprint' command on the host you should be able to get the printout on
> > your local printer.
> > 
> > One of my colleagues tells me that it is possible if the telnet client has
> > support for VT420 terminal emulation.
> > 
> > Q1	:Is this possible?
> 
> Never tried it, but I think it can be done.
> 
> > Q2	:What is special about the VT420 terminal ?
> 
> I don't think there is anything special about VT420 terminal. This is the
> beauty of *nices. What you can do with an xterm, you can also do with
> vt100.
> 
> > Q3	:Is any other possible solution?
> 
> What comes to my mind is Samba. In linux (and I hope in your Unix system 
> also) it should work this way.
> 	Make the printer shared.
> 	Configure the printer on *nix machine as SMB Printer.
> 	telnet to the machine and fire a printout.
> I have not tried it, but I don't see any flaw as such in this arrangement.
> 
> Hope it helps.
> 
> Manas
> 	
> 
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