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Subj:	Sharing printers between VMS and ULTRIX with TCP/IP

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From: "ALLEN, DAN" <allen@ecf.ncsl.nist.gov>
Subject: Sharing printers between VMS and ULTRIX with TCP/IP
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>From:	WINS%"<ress%eis.gmd.dbp.de@RELAY.CS.NET>"  1-AUG-1989 22:57:39.49
>Subj:	UNIX/VMS Printer Sharing? 
>
>Hey all,
>
>as long as I remember there might be a similar question about it - but I
>didn't find an answer, so once again:
>
>Is there a possibility to use a printer which is attached to a VMS site from
>a UNIX/ULTRIX system and how. Specially I'm having the following needs:
>
>- Use a LN03R (attached to a Decserver 200 and used from the VMS sides) 
>  from the ULTRIX site. It seems like the ULTRIX site using the printer
>  exclusively - so what do I have to do for sharing the printer between 
>  ULTRIX and VMS? (I'm not a ULTRIX guru...)...
>
>- Use the VMS attached LN03R from a SUN's site. On the VAX I have Wollongongs
>  TCP/IP and DEC's ULTRIX/Connection. Has there anyone some code for 
>  Wollongong and/or for ULTRIX/Connection which allows the SUN to print
>  via TCP/IP to the VAX?

	We operate a VAX/VMS system here (National Institute of Standards
and Technology) which provides network print service to a host of UNIX
based systems on our local ethernet.  The service uses the standard
Berkeley 4.3BSD remote print protocol via TCP/IP under the TWG package.
It is a locally written server that emulates UNIX's line printer daemon
and allows VMS print queues to be accessed from the UNIX system by
simply adding them to the printcap file on the UNIX machine.  This
code is available from our site (ECF.NCSL.NIST.GOV) via anonymous FTP
(subdirectory PRINTERD).  We also have a symbiont which provides the
reverse service (i.e. Allows you to define a VMS print queue which
prints on a remote UNIX(like) machine.).  The symbiont code is not
available at this time as we are trying to clean it up a bit before
we dump it on outsiders.  If you desire more info I will be presenting
a session on this implementation at the Fall DECUS in Anaheim.

Dan Allen
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, Md.

allen@ecf.ncsl.nist.gov


