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In article <3ds7fp$g8a@homer.alpha.net>,
Curtis Justus <cjustus@earth.execpc.com> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>  I currently have an NTAS with a number of HP4 printers on an ethernet 
>LAN.  The printers are configured and working through the HP Network 
>Printer driver in the print manager on the NTAS.
>
>   What would be the best approach to get UNIX (specifically, SCO) to 
>print on those same printers?  I seem to remember there being discussion 
>about printing from UNIX to a printer via NTAS.  Is there a way to go 
>through NTAS as an lpr server?  Should I setup a separate lpr server on a 
>UNIX box?

If you have the newer HP jetdirect cards that accept lpr input and
arbitrate among multiple sources correctly, you should be able to
just dump straight to them from the SCO boxes with lpr or use a
program that sends a data stream to port 9100 at the printer address.
Or, you could pick up the 'samba' server from
nimbus.com:/pub/tridge/samba/ and use it's client program to send
to the NT print queue.  That way you can send to any printer, not
just the networked ones, and you can share the unix disks and
printers to NT, WFWG, and LanMan clients with the server program.

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com