Queue to TCP/IP printer

[thebook]

I have a mixed NT Novell environment and I need a way to map a Novell print queue in one location to a TCP/IP printer in another. I know this must be possible, just not sure how. Can anyone help?

Thanks

 

[TheLad]

Can you expand your e=question more by giving us more info on what you are trying to do?

Anyway, don't bother trying to map direct to the Novell queue, just use IP printing direct to the IP address of the printer. -----------------------------------------------------
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[Guest_imported]

The problem lies in that our Main application uses Novell queues for printing so a user will for example send a job to printer "50" and it will spit it out. We are getting rid of Novell and moving to NT for printing and DHCP etc so this will no longer work.

So, when the user sends the job to printer/queue 50 I need it to point to an IP address.

Thanks

 

[TheLad]

You should really look at getting your Main application to utilise IP printing as a long term solution if you are getting rid of NetWare (my comiserations by the way).

Erm, moving to NT for printing and DHCP (etc..) is a bit of a dodgy reason for getting rid of NetWare as NetWare offers both just as good (probably better) than Microsoft .... -----------------------------------------------------
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[spi200]

Hi

Create your printer using NDPS printing and then create a print Queue which unloads its jobs to it. We have some old apps which require print queue and I had to over come this problem when we got rid of IPX on our LAN.
From memory you can capture to a Object (NDPS Printer) ie
Capture L1 q=.tree.printerobject NFF NT NB TI=30 etc etc
NFF=No form Feed
NT= No Tabs
NB = No Banner page
TI= Time of Job separation (Stops clashes)

Regards

David

 

[TheLad]

I still think you should think long term as any NetWare solution using NDPS is only going to prolong your use of NetWare and if your company wants to get rid of it then you need another solution.

Maybe you can contact your application support people and ask them to rewrite it for IP printing. -----------------------------------------------------
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