Re: remote printing to Windows XP from OpenServer 5.0.6
From: Brian K. White (brian_at_aljex.com)
Date: 03/30/04
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 00:22:53 -0500
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
Never used afps, but I've not had any problem printing to win xp shares
(home or pro) with either samba (yes, on sco) or facetwin. I don't know how
you send print jobs, let alone with a particular name & password, in afps
but as I said I've had no problems doing it in facetwin and samba. (visionfs
I haven't used since long before xp existed) so as long as you can do that,
then here is all I've had to do so far:
If the PC logs into a domain, then you need to create a user on the domain
and send print jobs from the unix box using that name & password and it
doesn't matter what users you create on the pc.
If the pc does not log into a domain, then just enable the guest account on
the pc or create a user that the unix box will use to send print jobs. You
have to enable basic sharing on the pc of course but the first time you try
to share a printer a dialog pops up to do that so I assume that's been done
by now. If you create a user on the pc just for printing, remember to make
the password permanent. It's not by default and some time in the near future
print jobs will stop working.
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