We found the real trick is to get your windows 95 cdrom out and
add a "generic" to file: printer ... we kept chosing the "lexmark"
drivers which was a big mistake.
We're using the "rpm" software in a trial situation. Also available
is a "Niprint" software. But basically you just need a lpd software
on your windows 95 machine and then all works pretty well.
I've included the one response I got. I hear you can also somehow
use a nfs client on the pc and have it find the file on the actual
host and not bother transfering it to the pc. But that wasn't
an option for our site.
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Pam Woods - axsymgr_at_uaa.alaska.edu
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Date: Fri, 21 Nov 1997 09:53:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: Simon Greaves <S.J.Greaves_at_hw.ac.uk>
To: "Pam Woods, Systems Manager" <axsymgr_at_UAA.ALASKA.EDU>
Subject: Re: Lexmark printers and osf
> Does anyone out there have a lexmark printer and a win 95pc setup
> to receive files from a unix box?
> If so, are you using the Jetforms software?
> If so how are you getting the file to the pc?
>
> we've tried the niprint and rpm lpd servers for the pc but
> we can't seem to get it to receive a file. Basically
> that's all we need is to set up a queue on the unix host that will
> dump the "print" file to the pc where the jetforms software exists.
>
> If anyone has some clues that would be great. The lexmark people seem
> to have forgotten to give us some "specifics" that we would need
> such software and what they'd recommend and how to set it up.
Since the PC is running Win95, you could set the printer up as a 'share'
and try using samba on the unix box to print to it - fairly sure you can
do that, certainly works well the other way around - ie printer on unix
host, unix host runs samba, PC's have all printer drivers etc as before,
but instead of printing directly to the printer, they print to a network
queue.
Simon
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Simon Greaves email: S.J.Greaves_at_hw.ac.uk
Systems development manager phone: +44 (0) 131 451 3265
Computer Centre, Heriot-Watt University fax: +44 (0) 131 451 3261
Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, UK
Received on Fri Nov 21 1997 - 20:12:22 NZDT