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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!vbcnet-west!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!news.PBI.net!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news.uoregon.edu!Symiserver2.symantec.com!news From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How does a printserver work ... Date: 30 Oct 1996 06:23:49 GMT Organization: Symantec Corp. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <556s9l$5vi@Symiserver2.symantec.com> References: <pg918qzy0e.fsf@theta.Microchip.COM> <327666D1.3F3F@www.play-hookey.com> Reply-To: tedm@agora.rdrop.com NNTP-Posting-Host: shiva4.central.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.tcp-ip:48925 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:30180 In <327666D1.3F3F@www.play-hookey.com>, Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> writes: >Vineet Pancholi wrote: >> I have four 486's (1-WinNT, 3-FreeBSD), all talk to one another via a >> 3Com 8 port Hub. >> >> I also have a HP 4ML printer, now I wish to connect its parallel port >Does the 4ML have a network interface built in?? We have several 4 & 4P >HP Laser printers at work, and all they have is the standard Centronics HP Printers come in two flavors these days: Those that can have what are known as MIO cards inserted in them, and those that cannot. I believe the 4Ml is of the former variety. If you don't want to pay HP the money for their MIO card, you can buy aftermarket MIO cards that go into the HP printer from various network catalogs. The place where the MIO card goes is a slot about 1 inch wide by 5 inches long, it's normally covered by a steel plate. You unscrew this plate and put in the card. the easiest way is to buy one of the MIO cards, and configure it for LPR printing, all the Unix machines as well as the NT machine can use LPR to print to it. If you don't want to do that, you can plug the printer into a FreeBSD machine's parallel port, and all other machines can LPR their files over to that machine, which will spool them and print them, as was mentioned.