Re: remote printing to Windows XP from OpenServer 5.0.6
From: Scott McMillan (scott_at_mcmillanandwife.com)
Date: 03/30/04
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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:52:06 -0500
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:57:55 +0000, Daniel Schmidt wrote:
> 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
There have been a number of issues getting Win2k/XP and AFPS/VisionFS to
'play together'. I have not setup Windoze printers via AFPS (what
version, BTW?), but you may be running into the 2k/XP authentication
problem. Do you use AFPS to share directories as well?
See http://tinyurl.com/29uh7
HTH
Scott McMillan
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