Re[2]: Config help - remote printer

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:20 10/22/1998 , Eric DeLong wrote:
>
>     The printer is actually attached to 5394 as remote printer from 
>     Dallas. I need an outq locally(waco) to communicate to the AS400 in 
>     Dallas, which drives the printer in wherever(chicago?). 
>     
>     Since I have to use TCP/IP to talk to Dallas (going over frame 
>     relay), I'm not sure how to pass spooled output from waco to 
>     dallas, targeting the remote printer. LPD? (What I know about TCPIP 
>     amounts to the proverbial "hill o' beans")
>     
>     Preferably, I'd just like to create splf in waco, outq redirects to 
>     dallas, then prints at remote site. Am I hopelessly lost here? 

I've not done this to a remote site, but if you can ping the device by IP 
address, you should be able to sent output to it. You  just specify the IP 
address in the outq description. If there is a valid route to the device, OS400 
doesn't care where it is.


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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