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by **D Parson** » Sat, 22 Feb 2003 06:36:31

I want to make an Epson c80 Color Stylus printer available to a Sparc
Solaris 9 machine on my net. Rather than use a print server on my network,
I thought I could simply do a normal install of the printer onto my Windows98 on the
same network and then give the Solaris 9 Printer Administrator the IP of
the Win98 as server. Then I would use the Sol9 Print Manager to send
solaris ASCII files to the printer.
I have not got this to work. Can someone tell me what I am missing?
Thanks,
Don

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by **Greg Andre** » Sat, 22 Feb 2003 10:33:57

>I want to make an Epson c80 Color Stylus printer available to a Sparc
>Solaris 9 machine on my net. Rather than use a print server on my network,
>I thought I could simply do a normal install of the printer onto my
>Windows98 on the
>same network and then give the Solaris 9 Printer Administrator the IP of
>the Win98 as server. Then I would use the Sol9 Print Manager to send
>solaris ASCII files to the printer.
>I have not got this to work. Can someone tell me what I am missing?

Your Win98 machine is missing support for the Unix printing protocol,
so it can't accept the print files from the Sparc machine.

Get the Samba software, install it on your Solaris machine, and
follow its instructions to create a print queue. Then the Samba
smbclient program will be invoked that talks the Windows printing
protocol and your Win98 machine will accept the print files.

Yes, it might be easier in the long run to get a print server box.

-Greg
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by **ML Starke** » Sun, 23 Feb 2003 10:11:04

Quote:>I want to make an Epson c80 Color Stylus printer available to a Sparc
>Solaris 9 machine on my net. Rather than use a print server on my network,
>I thought I could simply do a normal install of the printer onto my Windows98 on the
>same network and then give the Solaris 9 Printer Administrator the IP of
>the Win98 as server. Then I would use the Sol9 Print Manager to send
>solaris ASCII files to the printer.
>I have not got this to work. Can someone tell me what I am missing?
>Thanks,
>Don

What is missing is a Unix LPR/LPD program on the Windows side. You
can either 1.) add a Unix LPR/LPD program to Win98 (which has no built
in capability of its own for that unlike it's bigger brothers WinNT,
2K and XP) or 2.) Add something like SAMBA to the Unix side to give
the Unix machine the ability to do Windows file and print services.

Or you could use a more Unix friendly print server on your network and
get the Win98 machine out of the picture entirely. If the printer is
on the network already, you could make the Unix machine the print
server.

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