Hi, Recently I asked the following;
>We are currently setting up printing from our D*Unix systems to print
through >a WindowsNT server to Macintosh printers. Standard setup allows
the printing >to work however, if postscript is sent the postscript is
printed not the >formatted page.
>
>Does anyone have any idea how to stop NT from wrapping the postscript in
>postscript. eg is there a flag in the /etc/printcap file for remote
printers?
>
>Any help would be appreciated. PS We do have the CAP software but for
>various reasons we wish to run the printing in this fashion.
I four replies (THANK YOU to David C. Tuttle, Kent Adams, Evan Patterson
and aoki).
One suggested that we use the "lpr -x" option and two suggested the "lpr
-l" option on the print command.
Our particular circumstance is such that the printing is initiated from
within the SAP environment and therefore I have no control over the
actual print command used.
The suggestion from David C Tuttle proved to work the best.
His answer is summarised below.
Here
is a brief summary of the fix:
* Create another print queue on the NT server.
* When configuring the new queue, select the following:
* Under "Properties" the Driver should be Generic/Text Only
* Under "Details" the Print Processor should be winprint
* Under "Details" the Default Datatype should be RAW
* Also select "Print directly to ports"
(((The "Generic/Text Only" property was an additional driver which is
only available under 3.51 of WindowsNT or within windows for workgroups
and was not available under windowsNT 3.5 or earlier (I think))))
So our NT server has two queues to the same printer -- "bunny" for the
PCs, and "bunny-unix" for the UNIX boxes. The printcap entry:
bunny|Tektronix printer via NT server:\
:lp=:rm=ntserver:rp=bunny-unix:sd=/var/spool/bunny:
("ntserver" is the hostname of the NT server)
We tried this suggestion and found that it was successful. but we had
problems with the formatting.
Thanks again for the help and I appologise for the delay in getting the
SUMMARY out.
Wayne Blom
Systems Manager
F.H. Faulding & Co. Limited.
Received on Tue Dec 19 1995 - 01:53:49 NZDT