AIX 4.3.3 & Jet Direct printing 1

[Deak]

He folks I am running into a problem with Windows print job printing to HP Jet direct Single Port Getting tramped on by an AIX Job. The AIX Spooled print to the Jet direct actually Stops the Windows job to the same printer & prints its JOb from AIX. Does anyone know if there is a setting I am missing in AIX or in Jet admin that may be able to control this? It doesnt matter if the printer is Dot Matrix or Laser Jet from what I can tell. AIX always stops the Windows Job right in the middle & prints the AIX Jib. It does align the form so TOF is correct for the AIX Job. I am thinking it may be the Initialize printer in AIX but not real sure. Is it possible to allow both jobs to work at the same printer at the same time & not tramp on eachother! The AIX is useing TCPIP Networking.

 

[Yegolev]

Maybe you can use the AIX box as the print server, that way the spooler has the Win job in its queue, then when it drops its own job in everyone plays nice. Otherwise I would suspect there might be a printer setting so that you can tell it to hold the AIX job until it finishes the Win job, but I do not know much about printing outside the AIX machine (or inside, hehe, even though I seem to be the "go-to guy", sigh). I don't see anything other than paper size and such in my printer settings. Perhaps a different driver will help.

 

[Deak]

Thanks for the quick response Yegolev. Use the AIX Box as the print server. Interesting do you know how that would be possible? How to set it up on the AIX Box that is?

 

[Yegolev]

Eh, well I can make print queues on the AIX box, however the technique of getting the NT server to send its jobs is not something I have done. I suspect there is some sort of "print to UNIX" thingy for MS products, however I know so little about Windows stuff it is really quite sad.

Personally I would have to experiment, but I'd need to get the print output from, say, my W2k laptop here to go to one of my AIX machines. I already have numerous HP JetDirect queues defined so I could pick one of those as destination....

Well, I think I just found something to do the rest of the afternoon. =)

 

[Yegolev]

I know that the AIX lpd (print server daemon) listens on port 515.

 

[Yegolev]

Try this on for size:

http://www.utexas.edu/academic/otl/software/lpr/

 

[Yegolev]

This may be more educational in general:

http://web.mit.edu/is/help/win2000/lpr.html

 

[BFOJ]

To add an AIX printer on an NT machine, use the "LPR Port" menu choice when selecting the Printer Port. Just need the IP Address or Host Name of the AIX machine and the printer name or print queue of the AIX printer.

 

[Deak]

Thanks for all the info I'll let ya know if I resolve my issue. Any new info is appreciated as well! Thanks to ALL

 

[ggitlin]

What about using NT server as the main print server and printing AIX jobs using option proposed by BFOJ. Windown usually has better print queue management.

 

[avadh]

Hello,
Well, how much help is microsoft is going to provide when they findout you are trying to print job from unix to NT print server.

IS microsoft going to help you resolve the issue.

 

[ggitlin]

History with Microsoft suggests you are right, but the scenario I described worked for a similar envoronment (printing from mainframe via LPR/LPD to a Windows based LAN queue).