On Wed, 24 May 2000, Wayne Sitton wrote: > I don't remember seeing if this posted the first time, so forgive me if it > did. > I need to set up a debian box to print to a Windows NT shared printer. > The NT server is a PDC . The printer is an HP 5000. If anyone could help, I > could use it.
I have done this a few times (but for a HP LaserJet IIIP, HP LaserJet Series II, HP Laserjet IID PCL and a NEC SuperScript 1800 which were printer shares on NT systems or a Windows 98 system.). - Search the net and find a printer filter for your HP 5000. - Setup the /etc/printcap for the HP 5000 that points to your printer filter script. - Install and configure samba. - Then make it so the output of the printer filter script goes to the NT servers' printer. My printer filter first prints translate print - and then the script processes the file and then pipes its output through /usr/bin/smbclient $printer_share -U guest -N -P where $printer_share is the NT's printer share name. or echo "print -" before the data is processed and pipe this output to something like: /usr/bin/smbclient "\\\\PRINTSRV\\HPLaserJii" passsword-here -U jcr The "print -" is a command for smbclient. read its manpage. (Another alternative -- which I don't have experience in -- is to have the NT run a lpd server.) Hope this helps, Jeremy C. Reed http://www.reedmedia.net http://bsd.reedmedia.net
