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by sgandenberger

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I have a printer attached to a Netgear Print Server on a Windows NT 4.0 SP6 network. I have been sucessful in printing to this printer from NT clients. Now I want to print from our SCO UNIX application to this printer. We are running SCO Open Server 5.0.2 with Advanced File and Print Server 3.5.1 loaded on the SCO machine. The UNIX server is connected to the NT network and we can print from UNIX to other printers connected to other print servers. when I try to set up this new printer on the print server in UNIX using the HP Network Printer Manager tool, like I did on the other print server printers, I get to the verify network printer operation part and receive this error:

Checking that ctsunix.UUCP.com is on printer's access list ...
/usr/lib/hpnp/cfg/canaccess PS593832

Printer access test failed. Add ctsunix.UUCP.com to printer's access list.

Can anyone help me with is error or suggest another way to set up this printer for use with UNIX?

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by dattatray_b

Dear Friend,

Why u r not trying SAMBA on SCO-UNIX Server..so u can access the Printer of Windows Machine on UNIX Server.

Regards

D.V.Bhagwat

by cavedweller

I share a printer wirh SCO and NT clients here. Instead of printing through the NT print server I setup a unix queue on one of the SCO boxes. The hp network interface (jetdirect) does a good job of arbitrating the two different queues. On the SCOqueue you want to setup the "remote machine" as the printer's IP address and the "remote printer" as "raw" for postscript or "text" for ascii jobs. If you have several unix clients have all of them spool their jobs through the SCO print server.

by sgandenberger

I used Printer Manager to set a remote UNIX printer using the print server's IP address as the remote host. I can print simple files to the printer, but am unable to define the printer model and other normal UNIX printer setup options to make it print in compressed print properly.

by oliviu

Hi,

You can't setup a printer attached to a print server as Netgear or other models using jetadmin.
SCO must get the information about the IP address and the port where the printer is connected.
Check the documentation that came with Netgear for SCO installation.
If you can't find anything there go to the address:

http://gate.cruzio.com/~jeffl/sco/lp/netgear.htm

Don't bother with the first part of the articol. Considering your e-mail you already have an IP address allocated to the print server. Check the Netgear documentation for the ports number.

Have a nice install!

by sgandenberger

I really thought this would work, but there must be something odd about our setup. After completing the setup as directed, I get the following error while test from the command line:

sh: 7688 Floating exception(coredump)
This looks like it should work, but I still have a problem. It might do the trick from someone else.

by gazz

I could not get the hpjetdirect utility in SCO to print to those print servers either.

BUT

You do have AFPS, so can you add the printer by sharing it off the NT box?

by sgandenberger

When I tried to access the printer as a remoter windows printer from the SCO UNIX box, the printer setup utility failed to detect any printer shared on the device. I tried detecting the printer by device name and by IP Address with no success. am I missing something in your solution?

by maxwell edison

I've seen reference to this error with the HP DESKJET 710C. Is that the printer in question?

If so, I might suggest an updated driver FOR UNIX.

Maxwell

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