Redirect HP-UX print jobs to Windows 2000 print queue

[hp_user_1]

Hi,

I want my printing jobs generated on my HP-UX 11i box to be redirected to the print queue of a Windows 2000 machine and from there get it printed on a wireless Zebra printer.

Any solution/procedure for doing the above.

Thanks in advance.
AG

[john kingsley · Accepted solution]

Contact your W2K admin and see if the remote printing daemon has been enabled for the print queue on the windows server. If so, you can add a "Remote Printer" through sam which points to the windows print queue.

[Mel Burslan]

Thanks to Bill Hassell:

ftp://hprc.external.hp.com/presentations/billh/nt9000/hpux2nt.txt

is the document that can guide you, how to setup what you are trying to do.

HTH

[hp_user_1]

Mel,

This is what I get when I try to access it:

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

Thanks

[Ranjith_5]

Hi,

See this microsoft knowledge base doc. You should have HPDP services running on your HPUX machine.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windows/2000/server/reskit/en-us/core/fnbe_prn_creq.asp


Regards,
Syam

[Bill Hassell]

A security feature was introduced into IE a while ago. It drops the login information whenever you save or copy/paste the URL. Here is the complete URL:

ftp://contrib:9unsupp8@hprc.external.hp.com/presentations/billh/nt9000/hpux2nt.txt

The contrib and 9unsupp8 are user and password values. The document is fairly dated (no Win2k or WinXP) details. HP-UX is ready to print to a print server such as Win2k, you just have to enable the LPD/LPR service on the Win2K box. Use SAM to add the new printer as a "remote" not a "network" printer.

NOTE: not a single lp -o option will work because the Windows box can't process these options. If you see plain text printouts stair-stepping across the page, you'll need to preprocess these file with ux2dos as in:

ux2dos myTextFile | lp -dsomeprinter

[hp_user_1]

The problem is fixed. Thanks for all your help.