From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:00:19 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1884 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Monday 16 November 2009 Number 1884 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 File and print sharing : Peter Moylan 2 Re: File and print sharing : John Angelico" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:19:10 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: File and print sharing I've never gotten around to setting up a proper network inside my home, probably because of some initial bad experiences. To begin with I had trouble getting any sort of networking going when I was trying to interconnect with Unix and Windows hosts. Later, I was remotivated because I wanted to use printers that worked only with Windows and didn't have OS/2 drivers. It took a while to realise that this wouldn't work. These days I mostly print documents by e-mailing them to a Windows machine. Anyway, I figure it's about time I set things up properly, so I'm asking for suggestions. My home network consists of - a desktop machine running eCS; the peripherals include an ancient HP printer. - a former desktop machine, now stripped of its keyboard and monitor, acting as the server - another (smaller and older) eCS machine that doesn't get much use because I find that I don't need it - a laptop running Windows Vista. This is the only one that can use my newer Brother printer/scanner. These all talk to the router over wireless using tcp/ip, except for the server which has a direct ethernet connection to the router. When I want to exchange files, I use FTP. For more advanced fiddling with the server I use VNC. My main desktop machine has the hard disk partitioned into two partitions, one for OS and the other for everything else. The laptop has only one partition - stupid decision, but then I wasn't the one to install Windows on it. The server machine, dating from the days before JFS, has 8 partitions. (I should probably rearrange that, but it's a tedious job.) That's the background. Now the main question: what's the best way to do file (and possibly print) sharing on a system like this? Pure Netbios, or Netbios over tcp/ip? Or skip both of those, and go straight to Samba? Another possibility is just to install Netdrive. Does anyone have enough experience with that to offer an opinion? -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:26:34 +1100 (AEDT) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Re: File and print sharing On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:19:10 +1100 Peter Moylan wrote: > > >That's the background. Now the main question: what's the best way to do >file (and possibly print) sharing on a system like this? Pure Netbios, >or Netbios over tcp/ip? Or skip both of those, and go straight to Samba? Hi Peter, I am going to outflank the main question to answer the printing one. I have turned the Firefox "bug" of printing to pdf into a feature: I configured a print object as PDF. I set it up with the best colour driver available in eCS, and use Ghostscript/GSView print to file in the printer object and Redmon to put out a *.ps file; I then use GSView to Convert that to a PDF. I suppose I could connect them all together but I use GSView anyway so I haven't bothered. The Converted output is very compact, so I can then print it anywhere I like including on a Win machine with either Adobe (if colour is important) or GSView for Win. The output WILL be consistent across platforms. Good luck with the rest. Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au ___________________ -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG