We do this all the time. and set it up thusly: 1. create a unix spooler entry for the printer pointing to the IP address of the print server and the 'port' it uses, such as LPT1, P1, 9100, RAW1, etc.
2. Create a diretory for UV 'pass-through drivers' that uniVerse will use. Mine is /u1/uvptr 3. Write drivers specific to the UV printer and the AIX spooler name. I have an HP in my office, and my initials are KLP. I have a driver in /u1/uvptr named hpklp.drv which contains one line: lp -dhpklp or lpr -h -Phpklp and then is chmod 775 to make it executable. 4. Create an entry in /var/spool/uv/sp.config for the printer: HPKLP /dev/null BAUD 9600 DRIVER /u1/uvptr/hpklp.drv XOFF STARTANY OFF PARITY None TABS ON FFDELAY 1 LFDELAY 0 DATABITS 8 LOCKFILE lock.hpklp and in &DEVICES& hpklp 0001 0002 /dev/null 0003 0004 P 0005 lock.hpklp 0006 /u1/uvptr/karlp.drv 0007 0008 4 0009 1 0010 1 0011 11 0012 0013 1 0014 1 0015 1 0016 1 0017 8 0018 Of course you can do this all in the uniVerse admin menus, but knowing how to do it manually makes things quicker. There are several options for creating the spooler entry in smit. They include local filtering before sending to the AIX queue, or just standard and other things. I've had to do different things depending on the idiosyncracies of each printer. I have 36 printers setup this way and none of them are 'hard wired' to the AIX server except a couple of label printers on serial ports. HTH, Karl <quote who="Dave Taylor"> > One of our clients is running uniVerse 10.1.22 on AIX 5.3 using Pick > flavored > accounts. > > All of their printers are network (TCP/IP) printers - none are serial or > parallel. > > They have installed a UVDEFAULT printer on AIX connected to an AIX print > queue. > > They can print to this printer from TCL but can not SPOOL a print job to > it > from a file (not the &HOLD& file) using the AT option. > > 1. Can the SPOOL command see O/S level printers/queues without having to > add > them to the &DEVICE& file? > > 2. Do they need to add these networked printers to the &DEVICE& file so > that > the SPOOL command will see them, and if so, what does that record need to > look > like? > > 4. Is there anything else they need to do within Universe? > > 4. Do they need to install these printers differently on AIX? > > As always, thanks for your assistance. > > Rgds, > > Dave > > Dave Taylor > President > Sysmark Information Systems, Inc. > 49 Aspen Way > Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 > 800-SYSMARK (800-797-6275) > (O) 310-544-1974 > (C) 310-561-5200 > (P) 800-339-1497 > (F) 310-377-3550 > Your Source for Integrated EDI Translation and DataSync Integration > www.sysmarkinfo.com > IBM Business Partner > ------- > u2-users mailing list > u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > -- Karl Pearson Director of I.T. ATS Industrial Supply, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.atsindustrial.com 800-789-9300 x29 Local: 801-978-4429 Fax: 801-972-3888 "To mess up your Linux PC, you have to really work at it; to mess up a microsoft PC you just have to work on it." ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
