AIX

Dear All,

I just want to know how we can print a report from unix server to that printer which has installed on windows.

As from UNIX i can use below command to print ,but what set-up i need to do .
lpr -P<printer name> <report Name>

Pls suggest me.

Thanks
Arpit

Samba will probably help.

As far as i understand you have a printer (network-attached?) and a Windows-based print queue pointing to that printer. You want to use the Windows server as print server for the UNIX print job. If so:

1.) You do not have to use the Windows host if the printer has a lpd (which usually printers have. Just create a print queue using the printer as queue device in AIX and start printing.

2.) If you want to use the Windows host as print server install UNIX print services on the Windows host (that is the M$'s euphemism of choice for the lpd service) and create a print queue on the AIX host pointing to the Windows host as a print server.

3.) If you want to use a Windows-based protocol you will have to install Samba. The reason is that Windows does not understand real TCP/IP protocols, it still uses the NetBIOS protocol suite. If a Windows host says it uses TCP/IP it means in fact that it uses TCP to transport NetBIOS-packets from one host to another, but the protocol is still NetBIOS, just transported in a different way. This is in fact not really TCP/IP but a protocol called "RFC1001 / RFC1002" after the RFCs defining this type of protocol tunneling.

I hope this helps.

bakunin