by Yoav Weis » Tue, 12 Sep 1995 04:00:00
I would like to use a laser-printer attached to a PC running Windows as the
network printer so that all UNIX machines are able to LPR to it.
Anyone knows a solution for this ? (possibly commercial)
Thanks in advance
Yoav Weiss
CheckPoint
by Long Live P » Wed, 13 Sep 1995 04:00:00
> I would like to use a laser-printer attached to a PC running Windows as the
> network printer so that all UNIX machines are able to LPR to it.
> Anyone knows a solution for this ? (possibly commercial)
> Thanks in advance
> Yoav Weiss
> CheckPoint
by Sherwood Botsfo » Mon, 18 Sep 1995 04:00:00
Someone else suggested Samba. I think that does the opposite -- lets
your PC print to a unix box. NCSA telnet package will do thiat without
adding yet anotehr TSR/driver to your windows box.
However to use a PC as a file server, FTP Software Inc has a package
that runs on the PC, and makes it act like a lp daemon. It's single
tasking. (It's DOS...) so your PC is NOT a workstation. That's the bad
side. Good side is that it will run on a real dump PC.
--
Sherwood Botsford # Contract Unix system admin & troubleshooting
Physics Dept # Tech writing, Desktop Publishing.
University of Alberta # Image processing.
1. Setting up a SCO lpr printer to serve as remote printer for PC lpd's
This is actually being posted by Chris Maguire (not Jim Williams),
I have a bit of UNIX admin experience but next to none on SCO. I could use a
little help.
I've been trying to set up a print queue on a SCO box that will act as a remote
print server to Windows PC's running LPD. I've got the printer working fine.
And the jobs are being sent over to the SCO box but they seem to be going into
the bit bucket. For example, netstat -A shows that the PC is in fact
connecting, syslog shows evidence as well, and the BSD df and cf files appear
but they don't go to the printer.
Does SCO support this function? If so, perhaps I'm missing something in my
printcap file? I couldn't find the printcap entries documented anywhere.
Thanks in advance for any pointers.
Regards
Chris Maguire
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