Dear All,
I have configured a printer on a unix box to be printing on windows xp printer. Below are the steps followed:-
- Create the printer on the Windows XP box and share it as prt5
- Enable unix printer services on windows XP box
- On unix box i make changes on hosts,hosts.equiv and .rhosts files contents of hosts file and hosts.equiv the same.
[list] - .RHOSTS FILE
[list] - root root
info root
infomain root
backup root
[/list] - HOSTS FILE
[list] - 127.0.0.1 localhost
192.9.9.1 info
192.9.9.29 sslstocks
192.9.9.49 ssljc
192.9.9.251 backup
[/list] - HOSTS.EQUIV
[list] - root root
info root
backup root
[/list]
[/list] - During printer installation i use HP Network Printer Manager
[list] - option no. 6 - add printer to spooler
- enter spooler destination - prt5
- enter network peripheral name - ssljc
- the rest i take default settings and the printer prt5 is added to the spooler; and if you check on printer manager you will find it there.
[/list] - Below are the contents of printcap file.
[list] - prt6:\
:lp=:rm=ssljc:rp=prt5:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/prt5:
[/list] - If i send a print job, it gets stuck on the queue for ever. on checking the connection on the printer manager, it changes to is different from the connection port /dev/null. What could be the problem. On the existing unix box the same configuration works fine.
- Am using Sco OpenServer 3.2v5.0.5
Best Regards,
Njoroge Joseph
