OT: Unix => Windoze XP printing

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Under OSR 5.0.[567] I've always installed VisionFS in order to make
printers attached to users' Windows machines accessible from Unix.  No
fuss, no muss, it works fine, IFF the printers are not Windows-only
devices.

Under OSR 6.0.0, VisionFS is no longer an option.  I've been using
smbprint, but it's a less than wonderful solution.  The smbd or nmbd
daemons are tough to get going at customers' machine that do not have a
real DNS address; I fake a uucp domain.  And usually when the last page
of a document is not a full 60 lines, one may wait a minute or more for
it to come out of the printer, unless a succeeding job kicks it out.

My wife's XP machine uses a Dell 720 (real cheap device, actually a
rebadged Lexmark z615, completely dumb and controlled by software in
Windoze).  I can't find a z615 ppd file for CUPS to use; Lexmark supplies
one, but it's for Linux.

BUT: this evening, I produced a plaintext file and then a postscript
document from OSR 6 on Jane's Dell printer, using remote printing.
Yes, Windows XP can be told to accept jobs on port 515.

-- 
JP
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