From: Joshua Hudson (joshudson@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 21 2001 - 17:59:16 CET
>From: Sebastian Leske <sleske@enterprise.mathematik.uni->
>Hi,
>
> > I've conected a Win95+Mulinux Pentium (pc586) and a
> > Wfw3.11+Mulinux 486-33 (pc486) via parallel port. I've
> > installed plip, Samba, smbd and cdrom support on
> > pc586.
> >
> > Purposes: share pc586 CD-ROM drive (with samba or
> > similar) and access it from pc486 Wfw3.11
> >
> > HOWTO:
> > - Know if samba is working properly
> > - Know if plip is working properly. Is there a
> > /dev/plip0 device or similar?
> > - do it work ;)
>
>Errm, I'm afraid I don't quite understand. Is this
>a) a report of success (i.e. did you manage to get it to work)?
>Or
>b) are you asking how to do it?
>
>If a) applies, please post detailed information on how you did it, I'm
>sure many on the list will be interested.
>
>If b), I'm afraid the answer is: it won't work. There is no standard
>protocol for sending data via the parallel port, and the protocols that
>the Linux plip driver uses is incompatible with the one that Windows
>uses; so the two cannot talk to each other, much less dance Samba
>together ;-) (i.e. do filesharing) (also see the PLIP Mini-HOWTO,
>sections 9 and 10). All this _is_ possible via ethernet, because the
>ethernet protocol is standardized and shared between Linux and Windows.
>(This is just what I know; there may be a way to make it work, but I
>don't know any, and I doubt there is one...)
>
>Greetings,
>
>Sebastian Leske
>
>P.S. Note that you _can_ make DOS and Linux talk to each other via the
>parport; for the DOS side a special program is needed though. See the
>PLIP Mini-HOWTO (available at Linuxdoc, http://www.linuxdoc.org ) for
>details.
>
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The program is available in dos already: type:
# cat < /dev/ttyS0 > filename
C:\>type < filename > com1
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