Re: Connecting Windows 7 to OS/2 ver 4.52?

Hi Victor

Victor Bien wrote:
Peter Brown wrote:
Hi Victor

Victor Bien wrote:
I have had a Windows XP computer networked to my OS/2 computer for
years. I access the volumes and print on the attached printer. Now I
want to move to Win7. Apart from the huge reinstall of applications I
have to do I in the Windows environment I have a conceptual blockage
with working out how to retain that connection if possible?

XP connects because I have Netbeui working on it. Netbeui is not
available for Win7. I have never understood SAMBA or how to get it to
work.

Another option is NFS but the reading and the potential cut and try
seems it will blow out.

Anyone here can offer some clues?

Thanks,

Victor Bien





For sharing files you could try ftp - FireFTP is a useful addon to
Firefox/Seamonkey.

Does the printer have an ip address or is it a shared printer?

It's a shared printer. I use FTP for file access. I run the OS/2 FTP
server and swap files from a Vista laptop which won't connect via
Windows networking. I use to make the FTP server available to the
internet to allow fetching files when I'm at client's sites but was so
troubled by "hammering" - troublemakers making repeated attempts to
login and threatening havoc, I deleted the port forwarding to the OS/2
FTP. I now safely FTP within my LAN only. (I installed a secure FTP
server on my XP machine - it gets hammered as well but it has an
anti-hammering facility to throw the troublemakers off).

I could buy a small print server with a tcp/ip connection I suppose.
I've never tried to print from OS/2 to a print server. Can I assume
it'll all be straightforward. That'll just mean that trying to connect
the OS/2 to the Windows world is all getting too hard?



The only 2 print servers I have used with OS/2 systems have been built into routers and both worked well using the OS/2 SLPR printer port configured with the print server ip address and port name.

They both worked fine with eCUPS as well.

I guess you should be asking if anyone knows a current print server that definitely works - and if there are any that do not work - with OS/2 systems.


Regards

Pete

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