hi,
you can definetely print to lprng from any system as long as you don't
violate the RFC1179 to much. Simply make a connection to port 515 and
there you go !
regards
~christoph
On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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