Installing Network Printer in UNIX

Check out Samba at http://www.samba.org

A good solid product that will allow you to share files and printers fairly easily over an NT/Unix network.

I can share printers between NT and Unix.

Use the GUI interface, SWAT to make life even easier.

Dale

Unix's (network) way of printing is LPD/LPR, where LPR is used to send a print job, and LPD is used to receive one.

If your Windows is NT or 2000 they both have LPD and LPR included, so you could send and receive print jobs to those systems.

If your Windows is 95/98 (or older) you will have to purchase a 3rd party LPD/LPR product to add onto your system. We use NIPrint here, but there are many others as well.

For NetWare, there used to be LPD/LPR products, but I don't know of any that are still availible.

These solutions are the Unix way, Samba is more of the Microsoft way. You Unix vendor may or may not be happy about adding Samba, so at least LPD/LPR is an alternative.

If you are routing TCP/IP, you could try with hp jetdirect on your printer.
I don't have Tru64 Unix, but in HPUX with jetadmin, you can configure the printer. Maybe there is a version for your system.

Adding a printer on DEC Unix

1- Define a new services in /etc/services.
service name 9100/tcp
something like :
hpprinter 9100/tcp

2- Use lprsetup to add the printer

enter the printer hostname
select the type of printer ( if it
doesn't print correctly, try another
one. You will have to delete it
first...)
when ask for lp... type this : @xxx/yyy where xxx is the printer hostname and yyy the new services name.

exemple : @prthp4/hpprinter

When ask for symbol name type:
ct
and assign the value of:
tcp
type q to quit symbol entry
type y to setup the new printer