Printing from AS400 to LPD on Windows

[Ironman2401]

Administering AS400 isn't what I've been trained to do, but I need to solve this problem fast. We need to move some dumb terminals over to Windows based PCs running TN5250 emulators. That part is no problem for me; we are using NetManage's Rumba to accomplish this. The problem is that the dumb terminals have printers attached to their parallel ports. I know that theoretically if I hook up the printer to the PC and then run a LPD on the PC I should be able to have the AS400 print to the windows printers. I have the LPD software all figured out I think. I just need to know what to do to configure the AS400 to create a new printer that users can select from the AS400 that will send its' jobs to the windows printer. So what exactly do I have to do to the AS400 to make this work?

 

[jrjuiliano]

Hope I'm understanding this correctly.

We do this here using a software package that does the emulation (BosAnova TCP/IP). Anyway, I just needed to create a printer session that thinks it's a 3812 device type.

From there it's just an emulation, just like the PC terminals.

No need for LPD on Windows. J.R.