[SunHELP] Remote printers

[Frank-Christian Kruegel]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 02:34:41 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>Dear All,
>Can i access printers connected with any windows based
>
>machine remotely from Sun m/c?I mean windows based m/c
>will work as a print server and Sun m/c being a print
>client.Does any body know anything abt this.

Windows NT (and 2000, which is basically NT5) has TCP/IP printing, which =
really
is Berkley lpr/lpd. This is the preferred way to access Windows printers.
Otherwise use SAMBA on Unix to print via the SMB protocol.

Note that network printing operates on the transport layer, i.e. it =
routes PCL
or Postscript data from one computer to another. It is not possible to =
print to
Windows GDI printers, because you won't have the required driver software=
 on the
Unix side that produces the printer data. You can't access the Windows =
GDI from
Unix. I can think of ways to accomplisch this, but I am not aware of =
available
software.

Mit freundlichen Gr=FC=DFen

Dipl.-Ing. Frank-Christian Kr=FCgel
IstDa Kommunikationssysteme