I don't think is it possible to service non-unix clients without installing samba. All samba really does for you in a printing situation is transfer the printfile to a temp file on your Solaris server and run your print command to process that file.
I don't know anything about Macs but windows clients do fine with samba. When you set up samba, keep it really simple to start with. Just set up one printer share at first, and be explicit with the commands required to print in the printer share definition. Remember, the printer command is what you tell samba, so you can make the samba server do anything you want with the temp file. As well as any other tasks you might want to happen during printing. BTW, you seem to be suffering from task overload, which is a name used to describe what happened to fighter pilots in WWII when there was too much happening around them to keep track of and they became disoriented during a dogfight. The results were what you might expect. I would first install samba on your Solaris server, and throughly test it out from the Solaris server. You can put the printing and file shares through their paces without having to use a networked client, Solaris or otherwise. Once that all works, then try printing from the networked non-unix clients. Remember, windows clients will do their own filtering of the print job. Your solaris server will likely simply dump the printfile to the printer using a queue which has no print filter or whose print filter does not try to format the job. Keep it simple. For example, at first, install the printing software locally on your clients, don't try to configure your server to download the software to your clients at the start. This stuff is all really simple once you see what is going on. If you need some help with print filters, and you really shouldn't to print from windows clients, read my write up of filters with LPRng at the linux stepbystep site. http://linux.nf/stepbystep.html Search for filters hammer. Joel ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
