Need info on networked printer

[Bill Vermillion]

On Wed, Feb 09 17:46 , while denying his reply is spam, Walter Vaughan 
prattled on endlessly saying: 

> I don't need feedback on what kind of POS a Brother printer is.
> I do need about 2 seconds of hand holding on using a Brother
> HL-5170DN in a unix environment. We print all day to printers
> connected to windows computers from a *nix server. I have NEVER
> used a free standing printer ever with filePro, and I really
> never found a howto in the archives that I have found. How does
> one address networked printers? Is it just like printing to
> windowboxes via samba (////IP.AD.DRE.SS//PRINTER_NAME)?

> Or is it a LPR only deal. Which is something I've never done.
> 
> What's even more unusual about this printer is that in the PDF on 
> Brother's website they even mention that printer works with RedHat, 
> Suse, Mandrake, Debian.

> Sign me "in new territory".

The netcat that Jose posted works quite well.  I use it almost
exclusively on the SCO systems.

You might find a bit more explanation at Jeff Lawrence's site
as he has several examples.   You will need to know the port
of the Brother IP system.  Not all default to the HP numbering
of 9100.

Try   http://www.cruzio.com/~jeffl/sco/lp/

Bill
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