remote printing to Windows XP from OpenServer 5.0.6

From: Daniel Schmidt (dschmidt_at_buddyrents.com)
Date: 03/30/04 

Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:57:55 GMT

I'm in the middle of trying to upgrade my users's desktops from Windows
98 to XP Pro, and am having a great deal of trouble with remote
printing. Any suggestions are very welcome.

We have an application running on OpenServer 5.0.6, accessed via
termlite by the Windows clients. Every user has a personal printer
shared on their PC which is configured in Unix as a Windows printer in
AFPS. After upgrading to XP this configuration no longer works; nothing
will print at all. I have tried creating a root user on the client pc
and in the domain, and tried setting the AFPS printer password to the
Administrator password. For simplicity I am doing this in a test
environment logged in as root and Administrator.

What does work is installing XP's built-in LPD, and configuring an LPR
printer in Unix. However, I need to be able to print in a compressed
font so our reports will align correctly, and XP seems to completely
ignore -ocompressed, as well as any other options. I have tried setting
SimulatePassThrough to 1, but this results in no printing at all; the
data seems to get to the printer, but is missing a FF or something -
even multiple jobs won't make anything print.

So far the closest I've come to what I need is setting up a windows 98
print server, mapping the XP shared printers on it, then sharing those
shared printers to Unix; this worked (once), but is of course horrible,
and doesn't work at all in 98SE.

I dabbled a bit with setting up a virtual printer using the network
interface described at
http://www.aplawrence.com/SCOFAQ/scotec7.html#virtualprint, but
fruitlessly, as my Unix skills are feeble at best. I don't think I
really understand exactly how the formatted output from the local
printer is supposed to be piped to the remote printer with formatting
intact.

I'm sure there's an elegant solution for this, but I feel incapable of
finding it myself. Any help is appreciated, and I thank you for your
time.

Dan Schmidt

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