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Configuring a local printer in UNIX

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by shanghai sam

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I work for a company in Australia that uses Unixware 7 and we need to set up a printer on a local machine so it can be printed to from a Unix program over the network. The remote PC has a static IP address but if we want to print to the printer we have to somehow give the printer another IP address, but how can you do this if the printer is remote, it will conflict, or is there another way?

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by les

Use Samba. Samba and windows printing works well. With Samba you setup a print queue and redirect to a shared windows printer.

by pj

First from which Unix Platform do you want to print?
Second, the printer is attached to the PC?? What is running this PC? (Novell, Windows, Linux, etc etc)
Third, There are many different options to use, you can use free options (like Samba) or ifyou need support you can use another options like PC-Netlink (Sun), PC-Connect (IBM), etc

Send more information and I will try to help you more.-

Regards.-

Pablo.-

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