If Printwizard doing the acceptance, will your unix system allow a ipsec connection? That is a protocol to set up a Virtual Private Network connection, essentially, creating an encrypted tunnel between the PC and your unix system, like adding a network card to your unix system, and hooking the PC up locally. . If this is the only PC, you could hard code the PC's VPN IP, and setup print wizard emulating a Jet direct as a remote printer. Then setup UV printer device to print to this remote printer.
If you can't setup the IPsec, then you would need to configure the router which connects the PC to the internet to allow incoming traffic for a specific port # (ie. 9100 or 515) to be port forwarded to that PC, or to any IP that a printer is hooked up to. George Gallen Senior Programmer/Analyst Accounting/Data Division ggal...@wyanokegroup.com ph:856.848.9005 Ext 220 The Wyanoke Group http://www.wyanokegroup.com ________________________________________ From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Bob Rasmussen [r...@anzio.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 6:45 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Printing to Remote Warehouse On Wed, 25 May 2011, Bryan Evans wrote: > I apologize upfront if this is more related to Unix rather than UniVerse. > We have a remote warehouse that connects to us via telent on a dumb > terminal. They have a line printer hooked up to the dumb terminal. When we > print packing lists, we open up the aux port and send the print job to the > printer. We are looking to eliminate the dumb terminal, but we are stuck on > how to send a print job to a local printer hooked to a PC. Has anyone done > this before? Is it possible? The remote warehouse is not on our network - > the only way they can connect is via telent. > > We are running UniVerse 10.2 on HP-UX and use AccuTerm as our emulation > software. First, if it's a dumb terminal they're probably not doing a telnet connection. (If there's something spelled "telent" out there, I don't know about it.) A dumb terminal communicates via serial. You MIGHT have a serial-to-telnet adapter of some kind, and it would be important to know that. If you connect your AccuTerm in a similar manner, and use the correct control codes to turn on and off the printer port, then AccuTerm *is* able to do passthrough print. Note, though, that these codes vary by terminal type, and you said you turned on the AUX port instead of the printer port, so you might have the wrong codes. Bottom line: it should be possible to do what you're doing with AccuTerm. If the data needs to be manipulated to work on the (new) printer, such as if you're transitioning to a laser printer or even a "Windows-only" (i.e., brain-dead) printer, you could bring our Print Wizard software in to play, by doing passthrough print through AccuTerm, then feeding it to Print Wizard, and out to the printer. Print Wizard could also apply a form image, allowing you to print on plain paper instead of preprinted stock, for instance. It is also an option to run a freestanding version of Print Wizard, which would mimic a JetDirect device. There are lots of options. Call me if you'd like to discuss them. Regards, ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. personal e-mail: r...@anzio.com company e-mail: r...@anzio.com voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) fax: (US) 503-624-0760 web: http://www.anzio.com street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 Portland, OR 97223 USA _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
