Net printing

I know there's a lpr.device that can be used to do net printing, but I have an USRobotics MaxG router+print server that is not LPR compatible, but it uses IPP (Internet Printing Protocol) instead. Is there any IPP-capable driver for the Amiga?

Saluditos,

Ferr?n.

@Ferry

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Have you looked at Samba? Most OS's have support for the smb protocol.

@Ferry

Does it support "socket printing"?
If yes, lpr.device covers it as well as lpr.

Jack

@Swoop

Thanks, but the problem it's not the OS but the router itself, it seems it only support IPP.

Saluditos,

Ferr?n.

@Jack

Thanks for your interest. According to this page, it only supports IPP.

Saluditos,

Ferr?n.

@Ferry

According to This page, IPP uses th http protocol. Have a look & see if that page helps.

Also This document is informative. Your router is probably the server side and you need some sort of ipp client on the amiga side.

@Ferry

It will require somebody to write an ipp.device then (parallel.device replacement).

@Chris

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or use redirection such as lpr.device uses, should be easier afaiu:

7.scratch:compile> tail -n 7 DEVS:NSDPatch.cfg
DEVICE parallel.device UNIT 0 MAPTODEVICE lpr.device MAPTOUNIT 0
DEVICE a1parallel.device UNIT 0 MAPTODEVICE lpr.device MAPTOUNIT 0
##DEVICE parallel.device UNIT 0 MAPTODEVICE a1parallel.device MAPTOUNIT 0 MACHINE=AMIGAONE

@Jack

Makes no difference - you still need a device to redirect it to, and we don't have one for IPP.

@Chris

Yup, mis-read you (omitted parentheses).

Jack

@Swoop

Thanks for the info. Shame that my coding skills are close to zero...

@Chris

Yes, that's exactly what I was looking for, an ipp equivalent to lpr.device.

Saluditos,

Ferr?n.

@Ferry

I've found two IPP protocol client implementations in python that seem to work under AmigaOS4:

http://www.pykota.com/software/pkipplib/

and

http://blogs.gnome.org/jamesh/2004/03/17/ipp-2/

The former seems more complete and it should take someone with python skills to make a simple asl or arexx frontend somewhat easy.

Just printing to a postcript file before sending it with this library could solve your problems

@Ami603

Thanks a lot, man! I'll take a look.

Saluditos,

Ferr?n.

@Ferry

Are there any free, easy to setup/use IPP servers that can be run on Windows XP? If so I could look into implementing an ipp.device.

No promises though since I haven't done any network/printer programming before, though I have some experience writing exec-style device drivers.

@salass00

Thanks a lot for your offering!

As far as i know, OSes only run clients, servers are run on the printer side of the equation. CUPS, the printing system for Linux, includes a client, and the examples provided by Ami603 are clients or libraries to deal with servers.

Saluditos,

Ferr?n.