Printing to remote (windows ) queue

[Danny Van Ursel]

I'm trying to add a remote printer on my hp-ux 11 which is shared on a Windows server.

The remote queue name is 16 characters, but I can only give remote queue names of 14 characters with lpadmin (or sam)

Anyone an idea how to overcome this problem ?

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi Danny,

I am not sure, since never installed a windows shared printer on UX, but as far as i know the printeraddress and the queue name do not have to match.

HTH,

Gideon

[Eric Antunes]

Yes,

What matters is the MAC and IP addresses: you can give any queue name to your printer in UX...

[Cesare Salvioni]

You can also use SAMBA to print to a printer connected to MSW and shared as NETBIOS network resource by windows.
If u have samba installed on UNIX u can use the attached script following this istructions:

share the printer on MSW as to use from other PC
on unix create a local queue with
lpadmin -p -v/dev/null -mdumb

then substitute the file /usr/spoo/lp/interface/ with the script attached

edit the script and change the variables at the very beginning

enable/accept the printer and start the scheduler, it should print a file straight to the printer.

Obviously the script is not completly tested :-)))

hope it helps