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Printing Problem

2007-12-25 10:15:00

Here is the original question:

At the Corporate office we have an Enterprise 3000 running Solaris 2.5.1

which has an Oracle8 database. From this system we need to print

reports to our Regional offices some of which have Sun

workstations and some of which have NT 4.0 Servers. Our printers are

all HP4's with JetDirect cards. Since some of the reports require

different font sizes we are using a program called enscript to do the

formatting. When I setup a remote print queue on the E3000 to spool to

a remote Unix system with a jetadmin queue the reports print fine.

However, when I setup LPD/LPR services on the NT Server and add a remote

print queue on the E3000 I can print to the Regional office, but I get

postscript code instead of the actual report. Is there some sort of

filter I can use to make the report print properly on the NT systems?

Or failing that, is there a better way to do the printing to the

Regions?

And here is the solution we went with:

    nohup enscript -P$lwname -#${p_copies:=1} -hB -fCourier9 $p_output >

/dev/null 2>&1;

    nohup /bin/rm $p_output > /dev/null 2>&1;

The above code was changed to the following:

    nohup enscript -p$p_output2 -hB -fCourier9 $p_output > /dev/null

2>&1;

    nohup /usr/ucb/lpr -P$lwname -#{p_copies:=1} -v $p_output2 >

/dev/null 2>&1;

    nohup /bin/rm $p_output $p_output2 > /dev/null 2>&1;

TCP/IP print services were enabled on the remote NT servers with

Jetadmin ports added for the printers. Then remote access queues were

setup on the UNIX server to spool to the NT queues. The firewalls had

to be modified to allow LP services thruough to the remote NT servers

and viola: remote printing from the centralized oracle admin system.

Thanks to all the following who replied:

Amjad Zamil

Erwin Fritz

John Groenveld

Matthew Stier

K. Ravi

Rob!!

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Robert J. Provenzano Network Administrator

ESRI Canada Corporate - IT Department

Mailto:rprovenzano@esri.ca website: http://www.esri.ca

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