Remote printing

[Josh Jones]

I need to provide remote printing to Win9.X Clients from a HP-UX running Oracle7 (I believe). I don't manage the HP9000 and the guy who does dosen't have an answer for me. What I need is "printer emulation" software to allow clients to print to non network capable printers.

I have software for this on a solaris box I support but it's licensed for only certain machines. It works fine. Unfortunately I'm unable to upgrade to NT Work/Win2K Pro, as that has native IP printing built into it. Is there anything similar for HP-UX (comes with the UNIX OS)? Any Suggestions?
Thx.

Josh Jones
jjones@co.siskiyou.ca.us

[Bill Hassell]

NT has lpd as part of the OS. Just declar the NT box as a remote host, put in the name of the local printer and also the name of the remote printer. This lpr/lpd software is standard with most flavors of Unix.

[Emmanuel Eyer]

Well, two choices.

Make Win 9x able to talk Unix and get to the remote printer deamon. To do this you need to setup TCP/IP printing on your PC. Not sure it works with Win 9x (it works in NT). Anyway, I was told it does not work fine all the time.

Make HP-UX able to talk Windows, lets say more precisely SMB (the application protocol used by NetBIOS aka LanManager). To do this, get Samba (it's free) and install it on your HP-UX. It emulates a Windows server (actually a LanManager server). Once Samba is set up and declares its Unix printers, you can access them from your PC as they would be on a Windows machine - your HP-UX host will even be in the network neighborhood. Works great, we use it alot here.

Have fun, Emmanuel

[Josh Jones]

Well guys thanks for the replies....but....I would love to upgrade them to NT/W2K but it's just not possible at this time. Samba would be a good option (I use it a lot on my own networks) but again, I don't control the HP9000 (this was discussed and they don't want to add it to a production machine, ie payroll).

Like I said, I am doing remote printing off of a sun box (I control) using win9.x clients, and software that came with that box. I havn't had any problems to date with them (some coming across frame relay). Any other ideas guys? Thanks
--JJ--