Printing from Solaris 10 to LPR on Windows 2008
William Enestvedt <[email protected]>
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I want badly to send plaintext print jobs from Solaris 10 servers to queues on a Windows 2008 server. The Windows server ignores common options (like `-o compressed` or `-o cpi=16`), which is a problem for our unusually wide reports. Is there another protocol to use (like Samba/SMB)? Is there a list someplace of the arguments that Microsoft's LPR *does* support? Do I actually need to set these up as local Solaris queues which first chop the job down to 80 characters and then send the output to the Windows queue? Or should I just suck it up and print directly to the printers' built-in JetDirect interfaces? Thank you for any advice, links, or sympathy. - Will Enestvedt Providence, RI