Re: [avr-chat] remote io over ethernet - cheap?

[Richard Urwin]

On Sunday 31 Jul 2005 10:34 pm, Reza Naima wrote:
> I noticed this device (parallel port ethernet based print server) on
> sale :
>
> http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?&ref=cj&pfp=cj&produ
>ct_code=295760

The spec is at 
http://www.netgear.com/products/details/PS101.php
which says it talks NetBIOS, PTP, SMB Windows LPD. Those are printer 
protocols.

At a guess, if you programmed up an AVR to look like a parallel printer 
and drive the I/O, and wrote a program on the PC that used the printer 
interface API to make the right calls then it may be possible.

At another guess, it probably is not possible to use it as if it were a 
PC port. Those programs probably don't use the printer API but go in at 
a lower level.

-- 
Richard Urwin