RE: VPN and Client Access Printer Sessions

No,

You'd want a TYPE(*IPDS) LANATTACH(*IP) among other settings

Look here:
http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/643d2723f2907f0b8625661300765a2a/516c5f9756b1368a86256690004c3af3?OpenDocument

or http://tinyurl.com/93vy4

HTH,

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Malchow, Grizzly
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 2:39 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: VPN and Client Access Printer Sessions
> 
> 
> It's a Lexmark T520 I believe. 
> I think I see how I can set up the printer by using a device class of
> *LAN and then putting *IP in the LANATTACH, and the putting the IP
> address into the remote system address. I don't see how I can 
> change the
> device type to *IPDS though. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wilt, Charles
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 12:42 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: VPN and Client Access Printer Sessions
> 
> I don't believe what you want is possible.
> 
> AFAIK, Client Access doesn't support *IPDS printers at all.  Printers
> attached to PCs are by definition ASCII printers.  You'll not 
> using the
> *IPDS chip inside the printer at all.  
> 
> The reason *AFPDS printing works is that Host Print Transform 
> (HPT) can
> convert *AFPDS to ASCII to print to an ASCII printer.
> 
> Take a look at the DEVD on the iSeries.  If you don't have 
> TYPE(*IPDS),
> then the iSeries doesn't see the printer as *IPDS.
> 
> What type of printer are we talking about?  How is it connected to the
> PC?
> 
> It would seem to me that you should be able to connect the printer
> directly to the network and skip going through client access at all.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Charles Wilt
> iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
> ph: 513-573-4343
> fax: 513-398-1121
>  
> 
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