Printer Issue

[Robert DJ]

Hi,

i have a Lexmark Printer Print 2000 which is located in onsite(in US). The Printer is shared for windows, like \\tester123\lexprint.

How do I print with this share name from a Hp-ux box. Or is anything required to complete this task.

Thanx & Regards,

Roby

[RAC_1]

samba/cifs is just for that.

If the printer can be reached from ux, then you can set is as remote printer.

[Robert DJ]

Hi RAC,

Can you tell me how configure SAMBA/CIFS.

Thanx & Regards,

Roby

[RAC_1 · Accepted solution]

I used samba for this. And nevr used cifs, but it is also very same.

Setting samba is very easy.

Set variable to one in /etc/rc.ocnfig.d/samba file.

The configuration file is in /etc/opt/samba/smb.conf. This is self explainatory and share and printers can be defined there.

Also you will get lot of working print shares here on forum . And as I said earlier, if the printer is network printer and can be reached from hp-ux, yuo can set it as remote printer.

[Richard Saldivar]

Using SAM you can make a pointer to the printer. This would be a LPR type of printer.

Get the IP address of the the Windows server
and get the exact spelling of the printer. The remote queue name is case sensitive and it will use that.

Ip address: is remote host
remote queue name: is the shared printer name

[Geoff Wild]

lpshut
lpadmin -plexprint -v/dev/null -mrmodel -ocmrcmodel -osmrsmodel -ob3 -ormtester123 -orplexprint -v/dev/null
lpsched
enable lexprint
accept lexprint


Rgds...Geoff