Re: remote printing to Windows XP from OpenServer 5.0.6

From: Daniel Schmidt (dschmidt_at_buddyrents.com)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 04:05:20 GMT

I'm using AFPS 3.5.2n, but only for printing to Windows printers; I'm
not sharing any files. I'm sure it's an authentication problem, maybe
AFPS lacks Kerberos. I would think that XP LPD is my best bet, since
that at least partially works. What's interesting is that XP logs an
LPDSVC event saying that the service received an unsupported option
whenever I try lp -ocompressed. XP LPD is allegedly RFC1179 compliant,
but I don't see an option for compressed mode or any CPI specification
in the RFC; is there one? What I'm trying now is setting up a Linux
Samba server to receive lp jobs from Unix and forward them to the shared
Windows printers. I'm extremely hesitant to try installing Samba
directly on SCO, since I don't know how it would interact with AFPS,
which I don't want to screw up or remove. Is the Linux solution at all
feasible?

In article <pan.2004.03.30.02.51.53.434271@mcmillanandwife.com>,
scott@mcmillanandwife.com says...
> 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