ShivaPort M150
TurboNutter
allocate an LPR name to allow network printing from UNIX (SCO/Linux) or NT
using the LPR protocol.
I recently aquired some Shivaport M150 devices from a defunct project that
used them with dumb terminals. I would like to put some printers on a couple
of the ports but I can not see a way of naming the printers to allow LPR to
function. The printers are allocated a TCP port e.g. 2050 for the first port
but LPR expects a printer name not a port tcp port number.
Is there a way of setting up the ShivaPorts to allow LPR printing? Is there
a way of setting up LPR to allow printing to a port number?
Peter
Jeff Liebermann
wrote:
>I recently aquired some Shivaport M150 devices from a defunct project that
>used them with dumb terminals. I would like to put some printers on a couple
>of the ports but I can not see a way of naming the printers to allow LPR to
>function. The printers are allocated a TCP port e.g. 2050 for the first port
>but LPR expects a printer name not a port tcp port number.
>Is there a way of setting up the ShivaPorts to allow LPR printing?
From the wide and unrelated variety of newsgroups you splattered your
question, I'll assume that you have both Linux, Open Server 5, and a
ShivaPort M150. The M150 is a bit different from the Atom. See:
http://www.shiva.com/remote/shivaport/
It's quite different from the Atom. See:
http://www.shiva.com/remote/atom/specs.html
for a feature comparison.
If you cannot telnet into the ShivaPort, just plug a terminal emulator
into the admin serial port to do the configuration. The per port
settings should be obvious.
All LPR/LPD printers use IP port=515 so port numbers are not an issue.
However, you do need to define a port (or group of ports in a hunt group)
as being printers instead of terminals. You also need to know the queue
names. It's in the docs. Dive into the configuration and tweak the
settings.
>Is there
>a way of setting up LPR to allow printing to a port number?
No. LPR is fixed to port 515. However, you can use Netcat (cat directly
to an IP port) on OSR5 to do this. See:
http://www.cruzio.com/~jeffl/sco/lp/
and dig through the mess. I'll clean it up one of these days. Also see:
http://www.tkrh.demon.co.uk/netcat.html
for a better explanation. Assign an IP port number to each Shiva printer
port and you're done. It also works with Linux but you'll have to
compile your own binaries.
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