topic Re: Printer - Queue send to a Windows spooler in Operating System - HP-UX

Printer - Queue send to a Windows spooler

Peter Reuschlein — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:39:26 GMT

Hey every1

My problem:
I have Software under HPUX11.0 that merges XML with Data and generates Postscript and sends that postscript via _lp_ to a queue on that system.
Know we donÂ´t want HPUX to print that files on its own, we want it to send the postscript to a windows spooler which is finaly printing the ps.

Hope you understood what i ment and can tell me wether this is possible or not, and if it is how to do that.

thx
Pete

Re: Printer - Queue send to a Windows spooler

Steve Steel — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:53:00 GMT

Hi

Use sam to add a remote printer from the UX to the windows box. Remote system = windows machine remote printer is name on the windows spooler

Set it as a BSD system

Set the rlp daemon on on the Windows box

Print with

-oBSDo
BSDo) # Files contain Postscript data.

Steve STeel

Re: Printer - Queue send to a Windows spooler

Geoff Wild — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:11:55 GMT

Try this:

lpadmin -v/dev/null -mrmodel -pUNIXQ -ormWINDOWSSERVER.DOMAIN.COM -orpWINDOWSQ

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Printer - Queue send to a Windows spooler

Bill Hassell — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:10:43 GMT

You must also configure your Windows server to accept lpr (it uses the term Unix) remote printing requests.

Re: Printer - Queue send to a Windows spooler

Alzhy — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 15:28:04 GMT

Peter,

We are using this scheme. For you to be able to do this, your Windows Machine must have the LPD service enabled (NT 4.0) and on Windows 2000 servers, you must have UNIX Printing Services up and running.. Once the Windows servers - acting as print servers/spoolers are properly configured, you can use SAM to configure "Remote Printer" -- of course filling in the apropriate fields in SAM.

We've done this as most of our UNIX printing needs are Postscript and PCL/HPGL formatted already. Another reason/advantage for doing this is to have central Queue management -- Windows manages control of what is being sent to the printers instead of UNIX directly printing to the Printer network cards..