Pritning to an AIX system printer over a PPP connection.

[butchrecon]

Here it the setup. AIX 4.3.3 RS 6000 System. Hass PPP setup with an ip address for the PPP connection as 192.0.0.1. The AIX machine is 192.168.100.1. I have a specific program on the AIX system that runs a database system. Now I have a laptop that dials in PPP to the AIX machine. Runs the database program. The laptop has a printer slaved off of it. I want to be able to create a print que on the AIX machine that points to the printer on the laptop over the ppp connection. Is this diffivult to setup or not? James Collins
Field Service Engineer
A+, MCP

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[Chapter11]

Since noone else has responded yet, I did some poking around.

If you go try to add a new print queue, one of the dialogs asks how the printer is connected (local, remote, terminal, hp network printer, and so on).

Assuming you're running Windows on the laptop, there simply isn't a way of emulating any of the connection types. MS's Unix Services for Windows doesn't appear to include remote printing capability.

The only other thing I can think of is Samba's client facilities. It *does* appear to offer some ability to connect to an SMB (Windows-shared) printer, but I'm not familiar enough it to know what the exact process would be. I suspect you might have to write a little bit of custom scripting to pipe the print data through smbclient.

 

[butchrecon]

What if we put the printer on a Jet Direct. Think That would work? James Collins
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[aixqueen]

You can look at a few options: Passthru and also third party... Not an exact match...but maybe

You do have a passthru option...which disables your screen and then re enables it..

http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/aix.techTips?refNo=90605223514654

This requires you to enable and disable ques ...but it can work.

Remember that while it is printing you do not have use of your pc...or screen or keyboard. You could write a script that you execute that will enable the que,
issue the take control characters, issue the release when it is done, and then disable the que....It is does work...but can have problems.


Also there is a product by laix software...called Dialprint
which could be useful....

http://www.flash.net/~laixsoft/

http://www.flash.net/~laixsoft/dialprtr.htm

 

[ggitlin]

I haven't personally tried it, but...
You would have to have TCP/IP Print Service started on the NT/2000 (I assume that is what you run on your laptop). Try pointing the AIX queue's device to the NT print queue name (SOMETHING on LPT1).

 

[Yegolev]

JetDirect works all day long. Try to match your printer type in the HP device listings as close a possible, but I have had difficulty in screwing that up.

Note that AIX print queues work off of name, not IP, so implement some name lookup if you have not already. IBM Certified -- AIX 4.3 Obfuscation