Putting a printer (LJ IIIp) on a network?

Hi
I will give some history/background/devices first and then ask my
question.

Home Office setup
Machine #1 (oldest) 192.168.2.37
Pentium Pro 200 Hz, 128 MB RAM, OS/2 Warp 4 w/fp 10, 3Com NIC

Machine #2 192.168.2.10
AMD Athalon 1Gig Hz, 256 MB Ram, MandrakeLinux 10.1 OE power
pack, 3Com NIC

SMC Barricade 4 port router 192.168.2.1 - Cable modem (Comcast
4 input ports/switches, one WAN output port, and one parallel
port.

HP LaserJet IIIp - parallel port only

I spent 2 years off and on trying to get these two machines to
talk to each other, using Samba & IBM peer to peer, with much
help from newsgroup people, no luck in getting the proper
combination. The main thing that is lacking is my experience
with networks. In fact at this time I don't remember the
password for the OS/2 machine. It is out of a senior citizens
budget to have a $125 per hour person come in to set them up -
even if I found someone that speaks "Linux" and "OS/2"

I have both machines going on the internet thru the router.
I can ping the other machine or the router from the other
machine.

I have had my printer on an A/B switch over these years and the
switch/cables are getting flaky. The SMC Barricade has a
parallel port built in.

Question : Is it possible to have the printer use barricade for
switching between machine, rather than the A/B switch?
--
BillM

Bill;

Th e barricade will allow you to print from either printer. It's a print
server built in. I suspect you have to go into the config of the SMC and
add the printer's IP address. Then your PC's should find the printer once
it's installed. (I haven't worked with the Barricade, but it is the one I
would buy because of that printer port.)

Doug

"Bill M" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:N6-dnaSjbdDgMrnfRVn-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hi
> I will give some history/background/devices first and then ask my
> question.
>
> Home Office setup
> Machine #1 (oldest) 192.168.2.37
> Pentium Pro 200 Hz, 128 MB RAM, OS/2 Warp 4 w/fp 10, 3Com NIC
>
> Machine #2 192.168.2.10
> AMD Athalon 1Gig Hz, 256 MB Ram, MandrakeLinux 10.1 OE power
> pack, 3Com NIC
>
> SMC Barricade 4 port router 192.168.2.1 - Cable modem (Comcast
> 4 input ports/switches, one WAN output port, and one parallel
> port.
>
> HP LaserJet IIIp - parallel port only
>
> I spent 2 years off and on trying to get these two machines to
> talk to each other, using Samba & IBM peer to peer, with much
> help from newsgroup people, no luck in getting the proper
> combination. The main thing that is lacking is my experience
> with networks. In fact at this time I don't remember the
> password for the OS/2 machine. It is out of a senior citizens
> budget to have a $125 per hour person come in to set them up -
> even if I found someone that speaks "Linux" and "OS/2"
>
> I have both machines going on the internet thru the router.
> I can ping the other machine or the router from the other
> machine.
>
> I have had my printer on an A/B switch over these years and the
> switch/cables are getting flaky. The SMC Barricade has a
> parallel port built in.
>
> Question : Is it possible to have the printer use barricade for
> switching between machine, rather than the A/B switch?
> --
> BillM

On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 13:05:07 -0500, Bill M wrote:
> Hi
> I will give some history/background/devices first and then ask my
> question.
>
> Home Office setup
> Machine #1 (oldest) 192.168.2.37
> Pentium Pro 200 Hz, 128 MB RAM, OS/2 Warp 4 w/fp 10, 3Com NIC
>
> Machine #2 192.168.2.10
> AMD Athalon 1Gig Hz, 256 MB Ram, MandrakeLinux 10.1 OE power
> pack, 3Com NIC
>
> SMC Barricade 4 port router 192.168.2.1 - Cable modem (Comcast
> 4 input ports/switches, one WAN output port, and one parallel
> port.
>
> HP LaserJet IIIp - parallel port only
>
> I spent 2 years off and on trying to get these two machines to
> talk to each other, using Samba & IBM peer to peer, with much
> help from newsgroup people, no luck in getting the proper
> combination. The main thing that is lacking is my experience
> with networks. In fact at this time I don't remember the
> password for the OS/2 machine. It is out of a senior citizens
> budget to have a $125 per hour person come in to set them up -
> even if I found someone that speaks "Linux" and "OS/2"
>
> I have both machines going on the internet thru the router.
> I can ping the other machine or the router from the other
> machine.
>
> I have had my printer on an A/B switch over these years and the
> switch/cables are getting flaky. The SMC Barricade has a
> parallel port built in.
>
> Question : Is it possible to have the printer use barricade for
> switching between machine, rather than the A/B switch?

Another solution: Run lpd on the OS/2 box, and configure cups
on the linux box to print to the remote OS/2 printer. Of course,
the OS/2 box'll have to be powered up to use the printer from the
linux box.

That's the way I use one of the printers here: An HP LJ III on a
OS/2 Warp 4.0 box running lpd. In cups it is shown as:

|Description: lpt on BLUE
|Location: BLUE
|Printer State: idle, accepting jobs.
|Device URI: lpd://192.168.0.4/Printer

HTH
Jonesy
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