Printing to W2000 Printers

[rmmagow]

I'm sure this is well covered somewhere but.... I want to have my Solaris 8 system be able to send print jobs to Windows 2000 network printers. The two options I am interested in are sending to the print server and "maybe" sending directly to an IP attached printer. My printers are for the most part HP Laserjet B/W printers with a couple of high-end color printers thrown in. I'd like to be able to print as easily from my Unix machines as it is from Windows but do understand that this might be asking too much. Any advise is appreciated even links to sites that may have the info I need.
Thanks.

 

[felixfong]

I would separate the two print queue (one for Solaris, one for Windows).

Use Jetdirect on the Solaris side. It is pretty easy to setup.

Do a search on HP.com for "Jetdirect for Solaris"

 

[Annihilannic]

If you install and enable the service "Microsoft TCP/IP Printing" you can print directly to your Windows print queues using standard BSD remote printing.

On your Solaris system add a print queue using:

[tt]lpadmin -p queuename -s ntprintserver!ntqueuename[/tt]

To verify that the print server is working your can telnet ntprintserver 515 and if the connection is accepted it's up and running. Hit 'return' and it should disconnect. Annihilannic.