#Amiga Networking
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Hi! I'm running an A3000 at my job, under Amigados2.2 . I am ethernetted
to several non-CBM workstations (Sun, Iris, VAX); there are also two
Postscript printers on the network. The CBM ethernet hardware and s/w work
fine. However, does anyone know a way I can access the printers, across
the net, as my default Amiga printer? I currently use the WB2.0 utility to
intercept all parallel port sendings, sending them to disk. I then run a
script which rcopy's the file to the Sun, and lpr's it to the printer
(sorry for all this unix stuff…). Works fine, but not too transparent.
Any ideas? Thanks.
John
John,
I trust you mean you're running either 1.2 or 2.02 since there haven't
even been rumo(u)rs of a 2.2. Re: printing directly on a different
printer. I know of no software to currently do this, although people
playing with 'NET:' might have some more information. Using standard
AmigaDOS, there will (at a minimum) need to be a modification to the
printer preferences to put information across the network instead of to
either the serial or parallel ports (its current only choices)
Yes, I meant WB 2.0 (bad typing, I guess…). Thanks, I don't know about
"NET:" – can you steer me to anyone? I'll try a search on it.
John
The only way I can think off offhand will eliminate one step. And that's
to do:
rsh >FILENAME Your_Sun's_node_name goes_here lpr
I'm fairly certain that will work, but it's been a while since I've printed
anything out from my Amiga applications.
I would have written something like you wanted AGES ago, but when I asked
someone at Commodore about getting the tools necessary to build network
applications (I'm a developer), they completely ignored the request. Shame
too, because writing something like what you want shouldn't be that hard.
Steve
Thanks, I'll try that. I gather that CBM hasn't really gotten strongly
into networking yet, but will have to, won't they? I've been pretty
pleased ]with their Ethernet package (I'm using the NFS client, e.g.),
except for the RLOGINVT program (rlogin with vt100 emulation), which
doesn't emulate all that well. I suppose I would have been better off with
a 3000/UX machine, but I couldn't afford it, and I couldn't run all my
software.
John
CBM is working on the SANA stuff (which is networking), so I suspect that's
why they never sent me anything about the socket stuff. (Sure would have
been nice to get a letter to that effect, though). I'm surprised that the
rloginvt stuff isn't working for you. I use it every day…well, every
work day. 🙂 What problems are you having with it, and what machine are
you trying to connect to?
Steve
I'm on ethernet with TCP/IP, connecting to either a VAX/VMS, an SGI Iris,
or a Sun 4. Main problems seem to be with the VAX – it doesn't seem to
know what terminal type I am, but sets me to a VT100 by default. Using the
EDT editor, rloginvt doesn't always rewrite the screen correctly when I
page around (when a long line of text is overwritten by a short line, the
end of the long line remains on the screen…). Also, the arrow keys work
fine, except on command-line editing when the line wrapped around (more
than 80 chars); you can't wrap backwards, and you have to delete backwards
until you are on the original line again. Basically, it's quite usable,
just not perfect. I'm probably forgetting a few glitches. The TCP/IP
manual notes that there are known flaws (but doesn't list them – sigh).
Things work better on the unix machines, generally. BTW, do you know how
to tell the Amiga, under NFS, that a remote disk is "writeable"? I end up
using rcp, for example, to move things to another host, even though I am a
trusted host to it, with a valid login. I'm just not familiar enough with
unix and networking to get this stuff in a hurry.
The writability of the remote disk is controlled by the Unix host. Check
the /etc/exports file and make sure the filesystem is being exported as
read/write.
The other thing to check is to make sure that the UID and GID you've got
assigned on your Amiga match the host computer's ideas of who you are.
andy
It's not the Amiga that you have to tell the NFS disk is writable, it's the
system that you're mounting from. There's a file which I *think* is
called /etc/exports (I can't remember off the top of my head…I mess with
that file about once a year) which sets up the permissions the remote users
have when mounting the partition, which hosts can mount the partition, etc.
It sounds like the particular partition you're trying to mount is
read-only. Try changing the read-only to read-write, and restart your NFS
daemon on the UNIX side before trying to mount the filesystem on your
Amiga.
Steve
Using Syndesis' TSSnet, you can redirect PRT: to any DECnet printer.
I need to redirect to one of two PostScript printers, a mono LaserWriter
and a Seiko color printer. Maybe some general networking utilities would
make a good product for you guys!
John