topic Re: HP Distributed Print Service in Operating System - HP-UX

HP Distributed Print Service

Alan Buenaventura — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 06:25:05 GMT

I want to print to an HP Laserjet 6P printer attached on a Windows NT machine from my HP-UX host. How do I configure the printer on HP distributed print service?

Any help asap would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Re: HP Distributed Print Service

Kong Kian Chay — Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:35:35 GMT

Assume :
Your Win-NT machine name is "server1.com"
and the printer-name is defined as "printer1"
on "server1.com"

To name printer as "printer1B" on HP-UX.

At HP-UX Workstation :
1) Define "server1.com" IP-Addr in /etc/hosts
if not already defined in your DNS, etc.

2) Goto SAM
-> Printers & Plotters -> LP Spooler
-> Printers & Plotters
-> Action 'add a remote printer' :

Printer Name: printer1B
Remote System Name: server1.com (or IP-Addr)

Remote Printer Name: printer1
[X] Remote Printer is on a BSD System

3) Command : lpstat -t (to check it's there)
Test print.

Re: HP Distributed Print Service

William C. Hermon — Thu, 01 Feb 2001 12:15:35 GMT

On the NT machine (W/S or Server) select printer properties and make sure that it is 'shared'. Also, to avoid stair step, it may be necessary to use 'ux2dos' to preprocess text files, for example:

$ ux2dos some-file-to-print | lp -dPrinter

Re: HP Distributed Print Service

Rita C Workman — Thu, 01 Feb 2001 15:07:11 GMT

Here's another way...

That HP printer..does it have a jetdirect card connected to the network? If it does..use it.
On Windows, more than likely if the HP printer is networked it may have been set up via 'old JetAdmin'. So it's got an IP.
Well, just put 'old Jetadmin' software on your UNIX box.
You can download that from HP and install it.
Put the IP and same name of the printer that Windows calls it in your hosts file. Run Jetadmin on your UNIX box and set it up there too using the same IP and printer_name......and voila a printer networked via Windows NT and HPUX.

MIS and HPUX...a dozen ways to accomplish the same thing !!

/rcw