From: kuku AT gilberto DOT physik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE (Christoph Kukulies)
Subject: Re: Fw: Printing from Unix to an NT machine printer?
20 Oct 1997 08:20:01 -0700
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To: Brad Hubbard <hygrade AT mpx DOT com DOT au>
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We are using NT 3.51 and NT 4.0 in a mixed environment here.

Printing from NT4.0 to BSD printers works as well as
printing from UNIX boxes (HP, FreeBSD, other) to NT.

The clue is 'samba', a LANMANAGER compatible server/client system for
unices.
The unix box does the filtering via ghostscript
in either case and when printing from NT to unix we use the
RAW mode (printer panel -> Properties)

Printing to NT goes via special /etc/printcap entries that
invoke filter scripts that do either text pass through conversion or
do the ghostscript to printer driver conversion.

This all works excellent. Actually, no gnu-win32 is involved here.

On Sun, Oct 19, 1997 at 08:27:51PM +1000, Brad Hubbard wrote:
> Regards
> Brad Hubbard
> Hygrade AT mpx DOT com DOT au
> 
> ----------
> > From: Brad Hubbard <hygrade AT mpx DOT com DOT au>
> > To: Michael Haub <haubmi AT student DOT uni-kassel DOT de>
> > Subject: Re: Printing from Unix to an NT machine printer?
> > Date: Saturday, October 18, 1997 6:29 PM
> > 
> > If it's a BSD based UNIX system you should be able to use the -v 
> > option to tell NT to leave it alone. There's actually more to it than that
> but
> > I set up a half dozen printers ( No Postscript but some PCL, HPGL and PPS  
> > (a type of bastardized HPGL), but Postscript should work) quite some time ago
> > now and the finer point escape me. The setup was going from HPUX 9.05 to an
> NT
> > 3.51 Server.
> > 
> > If you would like further info. let me know.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Brad Hubbard
> > Hygrade AT mpx DOT com DOT au
> > 
> > ----------
> > > From: Michael Haub <haubmi AT student DOT uni-kassel DOT de>
> > > To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
> > > Subject: RE: Printing from Unix to an NT machine printer?
> > > Date: Saturday, October 18, 1997 6:40 AM
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > don't we all like Micro$oft. Here is what they say about their own kind
> > > of lpd:
> > > 
> > > (I only got a german TCP/IP handbook for NT 3.51 Server. So I try to
> > > translate.)
> > > 
> > > "... The LPDSVC service supports every printing format, including
> > > unformated text.
> > >  No additional processing will be taken. ..."
> > > 
> > > This is clever and true. As NT has no filters it can only print raw text.
> > > So if you rely on the poor nt lpd implementation and you tell the lpd of
> your
> > > unix box to forward printing to the nt box (take a look at man printcap)
> > > you will get nice source code listings of your postscript files, ;-)
> > > as nt will not filter through ghostscript.
> > > A linux box would do that for a local printer.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Yourth sincere
> > > Michael
> > > 
> > > 
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