How do I setup a printer that is directly connected to an NT server?

[Joe Johnson]

How do I setup a printer that is directly connected to an NT server?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Probably the easist method is to install Samba on the Unix box.

[Printaporn_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This can be done by use sam add remote printer in HP-UX and in NT enable remote printing service. That listen at port 515 using standard lpd protocol that both UNIX and NT will understand this.

[federico_3]

you should use SAM to add a remote printer after having add the NT server entry in the /etc/hosts file.

From SAM -> Priter and plotters -> LP spooler -> Printer and plotters -> Actions -> add remote printers

federico

[Andrew Maslin]

As has already been mentioned, create a remote printer through SAM. You do need to have an LPD client running on NT - one comes included, but we've found that it doesn't provide as much functionality as some other packages you can buy (we use Netmanage's Chameleon here, but there are others as well). Depending on what you want printed, you may want to look into one of the other LPD packages.

Also, the functionality supported by LPD isn't as robust as the standard HPUX printing functionality, so some options may not work (such as changing to landscape, etc.).

[Joe Johnson]

Looks like all I wasn't doing was starting the TCP/IP Print Server service on the NT box. I started that and it began printing.

Thanks for the input everyone...