UNIX Remote Printing thru an NT server

[Levent Akal_1]

How can I send a print job from a HP UX 10.20 system to a printer connected to
a Windows95 machine in a NT 4.0 network?
I can ping to both w95 and NT machines.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks

[Dave Matthews_1]

In my opinion the easiest way is to take the printer off the 95 machine and put
it on a JetDirect print server. Than set it up in unix under the jetdirect
software to be accessable from the network. Set up a print queue on unix and
go. Than set up your workstations to print to the printer thru ip. You'll need
ip to print from unix.This makes the printer accessable to all without worrying
if the 95 machine is on or not. You'll also see a considerable speedup in
printing once you get it off the windows machine.

[Levent Akal_1]

Thank you for the answer, but there are other servers and Operating systems
involved and I should't buy any new hardware for this solution (which will be
applied to more than 20 printers). I also believe I should be able to print
remotely on a TCP/IP network.

[Anthony Goonetilleke_1]

Yes you can print easily to an NT print queue, simply setup an lpd daemon on
your NT box and use remote printer setup in SAM to point your HP-UX box to the
NT server and queue name, you will have to install TCP/Ip printing on the NT
box. I have done this with NT servers as well as Novell server and it works
quite well.

The other option is to install SAMBA and then you can print to all most any
type of shared NT print queue.

[Lino Martinez_1]

Another option:
1)Install "PCTCP FTP Software" in the pc and configure the lpd (line printer
daemon).
2)Just you have to assign a hostname and ip address to the pc ( edit the
/etc/hosts file).
3)Define a remote printer through SAM.

I hope to give you a idea...