UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

I have a UNIX client that I can see on my neighborhood network via samba. I can share to it and everything, but I can't print from the UNIX client. I am running Sun Solaris9, but there are several things that could be wrong. My UNIX client is not a valid member of the domain that all the rest of my office is on, so that could be a problem. Second, it's an NT network obtaining IP from a DHCP server (the reason why my UNIX machine gets its network name of "unknown"). I am not sure if it's a domain thing or what, but I would like to be able to print from my UNIX box to our network printers. What do I have to do? I have some admin books, but nothing seems to describe this mixed environment and when they do, the UNIX machine is the print server and not a network client. Any thoughts or known web resources for my scenario?


--thanks--AJ

Hi,

You might want to check this...

http://www.kempston.net/solaris/samba.html

Not being part of an NT domain will not stop it from printing to a network printer. If you can see the machine in Network Neighborhood/My Network Places, go through there from a Windows box to the Unix client, open up whatever file that needs printing(choose NotePad, Word, or whatever may be appropiate at the time) and print it from there.

That procedure never fails for me.

Jody,

your response does not seem to use the UNIX machine to get to the print server, as much as it seems that you are using the UNIX machine to get to your Windows machine to print files in shared space. That would work fine, but I want to click 'print' from my web browser and I want that to map to my network printer that is within a WindowsNT Domain.

maybe that clears it up a bit--thanks--AJ