LPD/LPR printing or alternative

I want to try to use LPD/LPR printing with the H-P JetDrive print
server and OS/2. I have instructions for doing this with WinXP. They
are tantalizingly close to being translatable to OS/2 terms, but I
don't know enough to do the translation to the OS/2 - TCP/IP
implementation that I see in the TCP/IP configuration notebook. Could
someone more knowledgable look at these WinXP instructions and help
with this? Here they are:

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Configuring LPD for Microsoft Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server

Add the Windows Optional Networking Components, and then configure the
LPR port.

Adding Windows Optional Networking Components
1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Network and Internet Connections
4. Click the Network Connections icon. This will open a new
window named Network Connections
5. Choose Advanced in the top menu bar. In the drop down
list, click Optional Networking Components. This will open another
window named Windows Optional Networking Components Wizard
6. Click Other Network File and Print Services and click Next
(If you choose the Details button before selecting Next, you will see
Print Services for UNIX as a component of Other Network File and Print
Services.) There will be some animation showing files being loaded.
7. Close the Network Connections window. LPR port is now an
option in the Properties of a printer under Ports, Add Port.

Configuring LPD printing from Windows XP or Windows 2003 Server

Adding a new printer
1. Open the Printers folder (from the desktop, click Start,
then click Printers and Faxes.
2. Click Add Printer. On the Add Printer Wizard welcome
screen, click Next.
3. Click Local printer, and then uncheck the automatic
detection for Plug and Play printer installation. Click Next.
4. Click Create a new port, and click LPR Port from the
pull-down menu. Click Next.
5. In the Add LPR Compatible Printer window, do the
following:
1. Type the Domain Name System (DNS) name or Internet
protocol (IP) address of the HP Jetdirect print server.
2. Type (in lowercase) the name of the print queue for
the HP Jetdirect print server (for example: raw, text, auto, or
binps.) For printing to multi-port Jetdirects, see the LPR queue name
section below .
3. Click OK.
6. Select the manufacturer and printer model. (If necessary,
click Have Disk and follow the instructions to install the printer
driver.) Click Next.
7. Click Yes to keep the existing driver, if prompted. Click
Next.
8. Type a printer name and (if desired) click this printer as
default. Click Next.
9. Choose whether to share this printer to other computers.
If shared, type a share name to identify the printer to other users.
Click Next.
10. If desired, enter a location and other information for
this printer. Click Next.
11. Click Yes to print a test page, then click Next.
12. Click Finish to close the wizard.

If the printer is already installed:

1. Click Start, then click Printers and Faxes.
2. Right-click the printer icon, and click Properties.
3. Click the Ports tab and then click Add Port.
4. Click LPR Port from the Printer Ports dialog box, and
click New Port.
5. In the dialog box labeled Name or address of server
providinglpd , enter the IP address of the HP Jetdirect.
6. In the dialog box labeled Name of printer or print queue
on that server, type the name of the print queue (in lower case) for
the Jetdirect print server. For printing to multi-port HP Jetdirects,
see the LPR queue name section below .
7. Click OK.
8. Click Close and then click OK to close the Properties box.

Verifying the configuration

Print a file or document from an application in Windows. If the
file prints correctly, the configuration was successful. If the print
job is not successful, try printing directly from the command prompt
using the following syntax:

lpr -S -P filename

where: -S
is the IP address of the print server, -P
is the name raw or text, and filename
is the file to be printed (may need to include the full path).
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What is clear is that LPR has to be set up with the IP address of the
JetDrive, and the name of the JetDrive queue needs to be entered for
TCP/IP's field for Printer name. What is less clear is how to make the
required LPD port -- "Add port" is clear, but I don't know where one
gets the LPD port from to install.

I'd be equally happy with any other way to induce OS/2 (actually eCS
v1.1) to print through the JetDrive to my Brother HL-1250 printer. H-P
Support suggested a different way, but it too is not easy to interpret
in terms of OS/2. Their Windows-oriented suggestion is as follows:

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Using a UNC path to reach the printer ("//192.168.1.5/<printername>)
is
strictly a windows file and print sharing function. The JetDirect does
not have
the ability to host the printer in such a way. In order to print to
the
JetDirect, you install a local driver on a workstation then create a
standard
TCP/IP port for the print object. In other words you do not print
through a
share, you print directly to the IP address of the JetDirect. For UNC
path
access to a printer, you do not require a JetDirect. You can however
install a
driver locally on a machine to print to the IP address of the
JetDirect then
share it on the network, at which point it will be reachable via UNC
path.
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Can OS/2-sense be made from that?

--
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel

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