Your message was: From: Mark Bixby <[log in to unmask]> Organization: Coast Community College District, Costa Mesa, California Subject: Printer sharing between HP MPE and MS WfWg? To: Multiple recipients of list HP3000-L <[log in to unmask]> We have an HP 3000/980 running MPE/iX 4.0 attached to the same LAN as our Microsoft WindowsForWorkgroups PCs. We'd like to know what solutions exist (if any) that allow us to: 1) From a WfWg PC, use standard WfWg printing mechanisms to send output through the LAN into the MPE system and out to the dedicated (non-LAN) MPE printers. 2) From the MPE system, be able to send output spoolfiles over the LAN to any WfWg-attached printer. This is a major production environment, so solutions must be as automatic and seemless as possible. Your thoughtful suggestions will benefit the 100,000+ students in the California Community College MIS Consortium member institutions for years to come. Thanks! -- Mark Bixby E-mail: [log in to unmask] Coast Community College Dist. Web: http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/ District Information Services 1370 Adams Ave., Costa Mesa, CA, USA 92626-5429 Technical Support +1 714 432-5865 x7064 "You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish." - tunefs(1M) ---------------------------- I am aware of three products: 1. Unison/Tymlabs has a product which seems to be well integrated with SPOOLMATE and several other management tools. (Palo Alto CA or Sunnyvale ?) 2. Fransen/King has a product which takes HP print files and routes them to a Novelle print queue. (Portland OR) 3. There are TCP/IP boards available for printers which make the printers addressable to the network and the HP. I know that we have a couple of these on our network because they keep going "down". If any of these sound interesting INTEREX has addresses and/or I will look them up.