IS THERE A WAY TO DEFINE LOCAL WORKSTATION PRINTERS TO PSF/6000 SO THEY CAN BE SHARED?
ITEM: RTA000051684
QUESTION:
My customer would like to use PSF/6000 to control portrait/landscape
printing on distributed PCL printers as well as print postscript
files on the same printers. We know we can define direct lan-attached
printers to PSF/6000, but they would also like to define printers to
PSF/6000 that today are local to a user's workstation with an LPR
queue (the workstation is on the lan). They can send print jobs to
those printers today, but only PCL type jobs. Is there a way to
define those printers to PSF/6000? Is it described in one of the
manuals I can point them to? Thanks.
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A: If I understand correctly, you want to print a job through PSF/6000
to a PCL printer attached to and owned by another workstation. Where
are the jobs being submitted from? Users logged on the RISC running
PSF/6000 or users on other workstations? Can this be done? Yes. Is
it currently documented anywhere? Not that I can think of. Are the
workstations from which you want to print and that own the PCL printers
AIX or some other platform? Do they all have TCP/IP? I'm assuming they
do if they can LPR today, but it never hurts to ask for all the details˘
I'll provide some instructions below, and then you can let me know if you
need more.
Let me describe how to set it up if the printing is originating at the
RISC running PSF/6000.
1) At the workstation that owns the printer, the name/IP address of the
RISC running PSF/6000 must be authorized to send print to the LPD.
In AIX, this would be accomplished by an entry in the /etc/hosts.lpd
file and can be done through SMIT. (The screens on how to do it in
AIX are in the PSF/6000 Installation Experiences book in the chapter
on Client Printing; in those examples, I was setting up the PSF/6000
server to authorize clients coming in, but it shows you how to set up
this authorization on any AIX server. The Installation Experiences
document may be distributed to anyone; Pennant reps may download
it from the PENPUBS disk.)
The workstation that is the printer server will also have to have
a print queue set up, and you'll need to know that print queue name
as well as that IP hostname and address to do the set-up on the
PSF/6000 system.
2) On the PSF/6000 system, you need to set up a remote AIX print queue
through SMIT that points to the workstation that owns the printer.
This is where you'll need the IP name and the printer queue on that
workstation. Use:
smit printer
Manage Remote Printer Subsystem
Client Services
Remote Printer Queues
Add a Remote Queue
Note that this is an AIX queue, not a PSF/6000 queue.
3) Also on the PSF/6000 system, you will need to setup a PSF/6000 queue
through smit psfcfg. You choose AIX-defined Printers, select the
appropriate data stream type (PCL4, PCL5, PCL5C), choose the name for
this PSF/6000 queue, and modify the print command to point to the
queue you defined on the RISC in Step 2 above. The part you need to
modify is the AIX queue name. For example, the default that should
appear is 'qprt -Ppcl -dp -Z˘'. If the queue you created in Step 2 is
called 'diane', then the new command would be 'qprt -Pdiane -dp -Z˘'.
Now if the job is coming from elsewhere into PSF/6000 before it goes back
out again, then you'll have to authorize those remote clients in
/etc/hosts.lpd on the PSF/6000 machine. Then on those remote clients,
the procedures will depend on the platform of those workstations. If
AIX, they have to set up a remote queue. If OS/2, they can use the
lpr command with the appropriate flags to route to the PSF/6000 system's
address and the PSF/6000 queue. Other TCP/IP LPRs may vary.
In this configuration, the file will be spooled multiple times, but it
will certainly provide a capability they don't have today. If they'd
consider 4033s, then those printers could all be defined off of the
RISC that's running PSF/6000, which I think would cut down on some of
routing around. (Other network attachments would also be a possibility.)
But it sounds like you're trying to fit into an existing environment
without making any/many changes.
Let me know if any of this needs clarification. I'll try to add it to
my list of things to put in the next PSF/6000 Installation Experiences˘
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This item was created from library item Q675244 FFBDS
Additional search words:
AFP DEFINE DEFINITION FFBDS JAN95 LOCAL OZNEW PRINT PRINTABLE
PRINTER PRINTERS PRINTING PRT PSF PSF6000 SHARE WORKSTATION 6000
WWQA: ITEM: RTA000051684 ITEM: RTA000051684
Dated: 01/1995 Category: PSF6000
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