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07-14-2005

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Printing from SCO 5.05... to XP Shared Printer

I am having trouble getting our accounting program (on SCO 5.05) to print to a shared windows printer. We used to use a program that took care of this PCI print server or somehting like that. but when XP service pack 2 got installed somethign happened with the permissions and the files would print fine but would not delete out of the folder causing the fiel to print over and over. Anyways, I have installed the print services for UNIX on the XP box and configured a printer best as i could follow the instructions rom www.aplawrence.com. when i try a test print using
cat filename | lp -d unixtest
the print job just sits in the unix cue
i have also tried netcat with the command
cat filename | netcat -h 192.168.0.23 -p 515
515 is the lpr port opened by the unix print service on the windows xp box as best i can figure. when i try this command it appears to work but nothing comes out on the XP shared printer. when this command is run there is nothing in the printe cue so i do not know where the job goes. Please help if anyone has any thoughts.

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lpr

lpr(1)                                                              Apple Inc.                                                              lpr(1)

NAME

       lpr - print files

SYNOPSIS

       lpr  [ -E ] [ -H server[:port] ] [ -U username ] [ -P destination[/instance] ] [ -# num-copies [ -h ] [ -l ] [ -m ] [ -o option[=value] ] [
       -p] [ -q ] [ -r ] [ -C/J/T title ] [ file(s) ]

DESCRIPTION

       lpr submits files for printing. Files named on the command line are sent to the named printer (or the default destination if no destination
       is specified). If no files are listed on the command-line, lpr reads the print file from the standard input.

THE DEFAULT DESTINATION

       CUPS  provides  many  ways to set the default destination. The "LPDEST" and "PRINTER" environment variables are consulted first. If neither
       are set, the current default set using the lpoptions(1) command is used, followed by the default set using the lpadmin(8) command.

OPTIONS

       The following options are recognized by lpr:

       -E
            Forces encryption when connecting to the server.

       -H server[:port]
            Specifies an alternate server.

       -C "name"

       -J "name"

       -T "name"
            Sets the job name.

       -P destination[/instance]
            Prints files to the named printer.

       -U username
            Specifies an alternate username.

       -# copies
            Sets the number of copies to print from 1 to 100.

       -h
            Disables banner printing. This option is equivalent to "-o job-sheets=none".

       -l
            Specifies that the print file is already formatted for the destination and should be sent without filtering. This option is equivalent
            to "-o raw".

       -m
            Send an email on job completion.

       -o option[=value]
            Sets a job option.

       -p
            Specifies  that the print file should be formatted with a shaded header with the date, time, job name, and page number. This option is
            equivalent to "-o prettyprint" and is only useful when printing text files.

       -q
            Hold job for printing.

       -r
            Specifies that the named print files should be deleted after printing them.

COMPATIBILITY

       The "c", "d", "f", "g", "i", "n", "t", "v", and "w" options are not supported by CUPS and produce a warning message if used.

SEE ALSO

       cancel(1), lp(1), lpadmin(8), lpoptions(1), lpq(1), lprm(1), lpstat(1),
       http://localhost:631/help

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2007-2011 by Apple Inc.

29 August 2008                                                         CUPS                                                                 lpr(1)