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Skriven 2011-11-08 08:56:03 av David H. Durgee
Ärende: Re: Connecting Windows 7 to OS/2 ver 4.52?
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From: "David H. Durgee" <me@privacy.net>

Peter Brown wrote:
> Hi Victor
>
> Victor Bien wrote:
>> Peter Brown wrote:
>>> Hi Victor
>>>
>>> Victor Bien wrote:
>>>> I have had a Windows XP computer networked to my OS/2 computer for
>>>> years. I access the volumes and print on the attached printer. Now I
>>>> want to move to Win7. Apart from the huge reinstall of applications I
>>>> have to do I in the Windows environment I have a conceptual blockage
>>>> with working out how to retain that connection if possible?
>>>>
>>>> XP connects because I have Netbeui working on it. Netbeui is not
>>>> available for Win7. I have never understood SAMBA or how to get it to
>>>> work.
>>>>
>>>> Another option is NFS but the reading and the potential cut and try
>>>> seems it will blow out.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone here can offer some clues?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Victor Bien
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> For sharing files you could try ftp - FireFTP is a useful addon to
>>> Firefox/Seamonkey.
>>>
>>> Does the printer have an ip address or is it a shared printer?
>>
>> It's a shared printer. I use FTP for file access. I run the OS/2 FTP
>> server and swap files from a Vista laptop which won't connect via
>> Windows networking. I use to make the FTP server available to the
>> internet to allow fetching files when I'm at client's sites but was so
>> troubled by "hammering" - troublemakers making repeated attempts to
>> login and threatening havoc, I deleted the port forwarding to the OS/2
>> FTP. I now safely FTP within my LAN only. (I installed a secure FTP
>> server on my XP machine - it gets hammered as well but it has an
>> anti-hammering facility to throw the troublemakers off).
>>
>> I could buy a small print server with a tcp/ip connection I suppose.
>> I've never tried to print from OS/2 to a print server. Can I assume
>> it'll all be straightforward. That'll just mean that trying to connect
>> the OS/2 to the Windows world is all getting too hard?
>>
>>
>
> The only 2 print servers I have used with OS/2 systems have been built
> into routers and both worked well using the OS/2 SLPR printer port
> configured with the print server ip address and port name.
>
> They both worked fine with eCUPS as well.
>
> I guess you should be asking if anyone knows a current print server that
> definitely works - and if there are any that do not work - with OS/2
> systems.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Pete

I don't know how current it is, but I use a Zonet ZPS2102 here on my 
LAN.  I have Warp Server, eCS 1.03, eCS 1.2, Linux Mint 8 and 11 systems 
on the LAN and all can make use of the print server and the printer 
connected to it.

I chose the Zonet ZPS2102 in particular as it had a USB-2 port on it and 
I wanted to be able to drive the printer, a Brother HL-5050, at full 
speed from older systems that did not have such support.  I could also 
connect two additional printers to the server, but have no need at this 
point to do so.

Dave

Dave


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