adding printer via a print server

[terrytapp]

I sucessfully added a xerox printer to a hp-ux box and also printed ok from that. Now they say the application directly prints to the printer and have to go thru a print server. How can we add or modify this to go via a print server? Please help.

Thanks

Terry

[OldSchool]

so where / what is this "application"?

what command(s) does the app issue to cause printing?

in "now they say" who are they?

I'm not sure I understand what they are asking for. Does "they" think it needs to go remote to a Windows print server for some reason?

[Jeeshan]

Print server in which platform? windows or UNIX.

if windows AD based check this thread

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=957541

[Rita C Workman]

Sounds like what you are looking for is 'print spool management' software.

Talk to any third party software vendor and tell them that's what you want. There is plenty of products out there....

Rgrds,
Rita

[OldSchool]

you really need to supply more information. assigning points w/o responding isn't going to clarify the problem you're trying to address

[TTr]

> I sucessfully added a xerox printer...
Most likely you already used a printserver, the one that came with the xerox printer.

> Now they say the application directly prints to the printer and have to go thru a print server
I assume they don't want the app to print to the xerox printserver but rather they want to use an exisiting prinserver/spooling system

>...modify this to go via a print server
You/they need to be more specific!

[terrytapp]

Thanks much for all the responses. It lokks like when i added the printer it has set up the Q via a print server (i just added the printer as a network printer). what they want is all the requests not to go directly to this xerox printer but rather thru their print server (that is the information i have). now if i delete this printer and add the printer again as a remoter printer and also get the ipadress of the print server (or name) will that suffice to add the printer (but print via the print server)?

Thanks

Terry

[TTr]

OK so they want you to use a remote spooler rather than a network one. For a remote spooler, you also need the name of the spooler in the xerox printserver. Run SAM (I am violating my personal quote in your case, but for you SAM may be the easiest tool to use), select printer and plotters, LP spoolers and printers and plotters again. Go to actions, select "add remoter printer/plotter" and you need 3 pieaces of information
1. local spooler name
2. remote system name (name or ip of the xerox printserver)
3. Remote printer name This is the spooler name within the xerox prinserver. This one you need to get it from the xerox documentastion or maybe if you print a config page on the xerox printserver it will be there. It may be as simple as "lp" so use "lp" for #3.

You don't have to delete the current network spooler to create the new, remote spooler unless you have to use the same name.

An alternative to using sam is to use the lpadmin command. In the man page the second example applies to you. The values they use in this example are 1)lp3, 2)system2, 3)lp. Everything else uses the default values.

[Pete Randall]

What is "their print server"?


Pete

[terrytapp]

OK, here is the information i have..

Printer to be configured on hp-ux : xerox (i have the ip)
Print server : windows (BOX) print server (i have the ip)

Now when i add the printer in SAM as remote printer what should i give for

Printer Name:
Remote system name:
Remote printer name:

Please advise.

Thanks

Terry

[TTr]

Since you are printing via a windows box you do not need any of the internal xerox info. The information you need for SAM should be as follows

Printer Name: This is a new name for the unix spooler you are creating. They may want you to make this the same as the windows spooler name.

Remote system name: The windows box hostname or IP. (If you use the hostname you must be able to resolve it in the UNIX server, but you have the IP already)

Remote printer name: The existing name of the xerox printer in the windows box. They (the sysadmin of the windows box) have to provide this to you.