so this printer is not a network printer is is on lpt port of your machine?
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One way I have had good results is by doing this command:
1. set shared for director on desktop machine
Now you will need to be root on the AIX server to mount the file system and have cifs_fs for AIX installed.
But once you do you just mount a directory from you desktop to the AIX server and the copy what you want to print to it and print like normal through standard windows printing.
Hi to all,
A real virgin to unix, so sorry for such a basic question.
Have a older unix terminal with crashed server. Software resides to terminal. Don't have network printing capabilities. I removed network printer and gone local, but don't know how to redirect the device for local... (3 Replies)
HHi guys .
I have this problem ,I'm trying to print to a local machine (windows from the aix box , I;m using tiny Term Emulator)
I mean i have no idea what should i do to get this going.
The printer is connect it to the pc , it does not have an ip address.
Thanks a lot
Jose (0 Replies)
I've connected a Sun Sparc Printer E to a Sun Server to print locally. I've gone through and added the printer using the admintool, but nothing will print. Is there some other configuration that needs to take place that I'm overlooking. :o (0 Replies)
Fairly simple question, I think. Still trying to get my head around AIX print queues. Most of our problems seem to stem from print queues going down. This generates help-desk calls when users call up to get their queues started or to get rid of the emails that qdaemon sends them.
Looking at... (0 Replies)
Hello. I am really new to Unix and am trying to set up a local printer on a FreeBSD 6.2 machine. I was able to get some kind of garbage by going lptest > /dev/lpt0, but after I set up the spooler I get nothing but page after page of nothing. I checked the kernel configuration and it had the correct... (1 Reply)
I need someone to please help me in arranging the Local Printer Installation steps in the correct order.
Is this correct ?
first step - Test the Printer
Second step - Physically attach the Printer
Third step - Add the Printer to the print service
Fourth step - ... (1 Reply)
I need someone to please help me in arranging the Local Printer Installation steps in the correct order.
Is this correct ?
first step - Test the Printer
Second step - Physically attach the Printer
Third step - Add the Printer to the print service
Fourth step - ... (1 Reply)
Hi folks need some help here. We have a RS6000 running AIX. It is almost never used anymore, but we need to print off some data. I have a paralell printer conected to the parrallel port, but have no idea where to go from here. The printer was originall named named LP01. If the users telnetinto the... (2 Replies)
Hi every one
My environment is like this :
sever operating system is SCO OSR 5.0.7
I am running my pc with RHEL5.4 OS and connecting to server via telnet.
a dotmatrix printer is attached to my pc and I want get printing from my pc-printer during telnet. Will pass through printing works in this... (2 Replies)