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Windows 2000 through Samba

From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: problems printing from Windows 2000 Server to SCO printer
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 21:01:52 -0700

On Mon, 15 Oct 2001 02:06:14 GMT, "Eric Kleinberg"
<ekleinberg@mediaone.net> wrote:

>I set up a Okidata 14i laser printer on lpt0 on a SCO 5.0.5 box with samba.
>I can print to it okay from Windows 98. It uses the "postscript" model.

The "postscribble" driver is a pass through driver.  It takes what
your Windoze clients send it and pass it to the 14i laser printer
essentially unchanged.

>However, when I print to it from Windows 2000 Server (i.e. printed the test
>page from the properties dialog) then it prints lines which look like ")
>Line(%%Title: Test Page". When I configured the printer as a network printer
>on Windows 2000 it asked me for a driver and I pointed it to the postscript
>driver for Windows 2000 which comes with the Okidate cdrom.

I had a hell of time finding getting Windoze 2000 to properly print to
various print servers.  I'll assume you're using "print to a standard
printer port" and have selected LPR/LPD on port 515.  The trick was to
turn off all the "enhanced" features on the Windoze 2000 end.  

Then, I "updated" the Windoze 2000 printer driver for the HP4000 and
everything went nuts.  That's when I found that the user friendly
install shoved in the NT4 driver and not the W2K driver.  See:
  http://www.windows2000faq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=15259
for the damage control method.

Then, I installed W2K Service Pack #2 which cleverly reset some (not
all) of the print spooler setting back to the defaults which included
turning on the "enhanced" features that drove me nuts to begin with.

Hint:  Buy a print server and have your client machines print directly
to the print server and not go through two servers (Windoze 2K server
and then the OSR5 server) to get to the printer.



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