Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!think!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!varian.UUCP!david From: david@varian.UUCP (David Brown) Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers Subject: Re: DEC Printserver-40 and Unix machines Message-ID: <647@varian.UUCP> Date: Thu, 25-Jun-87 20:02:32 EDT Article-I.D.: varian.647 Posted: Thu Jun 25 20:02:32 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 05:51:23 EDT References: <8706241909.AA14049@brillig.umd.edu> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: Varian, Walnut Creek CA Lines: 37 Approved: laser-lovers@brillig.umd.edu Summary: printing from UNIX to a VMS printer via DECnet In article <8706241909.AA14049@brillig.umd.edu>, MANSFIEL@EMBL.BITNET (Niall Mansfield) writes: > We want to access a DEC Printserver 40 from Sun > workstations. Are there any problems? > This is not exactly what you want, but here we can access printers on our VMS machines from our UNIX machines through DECnet -- we run DECnet/Ultrix on our VAX 750. I don't know if Sun's DECnet will let you do the same, plus you would need a VMS machine to drive the PS40. Here's a brief summary: (our VMS machine is named LIMSDM::) Use "dcp -P" to print from Ultrix to VMS Add to /etc/printcap on the Ultrix machine: lpvms|line printer on VMSNODE:: via DECnet:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :of=/usr/local/lib/lpvms:\ :sd=/usr/spool/lpvms: If you have other BSD Unix machines, add a remote lpr entry to their printcaps. This is /usr/local/lib/lpvms (an executable shell script): #! /bin/sh FILE=prt$$ DIR=/tmp cat > $DIR/$FILE dcp -P $DIR/$FILE vmsnode::$FILE drm vmsnode::$FILE rm $DIR/$FILE -- David Brown (415) 945-2199 Varian Instruments 2700 Mitchell Dr. Walnut Creek, Ca. 94598 {ptsfa,lll-crg,zehntel,dual,amd,fortune,ista,rtech,csi,normac}!varian!david