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Visionfs printing

The problem here was that the original poster thought that SCO would see a Windows shared printer as a "remote" printer (that's one of the options in the SCO printer manager). It could and probably SHOULD have worked that way, but as the post explains, it does not.

The dead link below referred to using a virtual printer which is what users would print to and that would pass the job on to the Windows SMB printer.

From: Matt Schofield <mattsc@sco.deletethisbit.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: Network Neighbourhood and VisionFS
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:14:39 +0000
Message-ID: <36ECEB9F.16625E97@sco.deletethisbit.com> 
References: <36A244FF.15C2C46F@sympatico.ca>
<36E8EEAF.E6D7F49C@sco.deletethisbit.com>
<36A2B228.1F329304@sympatico.ca> 

Using VisionFS to print from UNIX to a shared Windows printer *DOES NOT*
use the remote print/LPD printer mechanism that the SCO remote print
manager provides. That mechanism uses standard TCP/IP printing to pass a
job from an LPD client on the SCO box to a Windows based LPD server on
the PC.

VisionFS uses an altogether different method, that of SMB printing. This
is the same mechanism that, as you have already tried, allows windows
PC's to print to each others printers. Certainly for the initial stages
of setting VisionFS up to print you can ignore the SCO printer manager.
The steps I recommend you take to get VisionFS printing to your windows
PC are as follows:

1. Run the following command:

cat /etc/hosts | xtod | ./visionfs print //pcname/printername - --user
made_up --password made_up

Leave the user and password set ot 'made_up'. Just change the pc and
printername. When this is working proceed to the next step. 

2. Create a local printer on the UNIX box (scoadmin printer manager) and
modify/change the interface file to something like Stephane Hamels
interface file that can be found at:


http://x1.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=393482356&CONTEXT=921495795.417071210&hitnum=0
(link dead, sorry)

This allows the job to be managed in the UNIX lp system before being
sent to the Windows PC using the 'visionfs print' command.

Anita G wrote:
> 
> I have been trying to add a remote printer on sco, so when it askes me to
> choose a host name (or the ip) of the machine which has the printer installed
> on, It only shows me 2 host names (which does not include the name of the
> computer that has the printer installed on). Meanwhile, I can print and see
> that the printer is shared through my win98 machine.
> 

Tha machines that the print manager lists are those with Windows LPD
servers running on them (e.g. NT boxes with the TCP/IP printing service
installed and enabled).

Hope this helps

Matt Schofield
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