filePro Printing from SCO Openserver 6 directly to an SMB share

[Brian K. White]

> Hi Brian:
>
>     The customer actually wants me to "print to file"; specifically to a SMB
> Network share.  A lot of the forms and reports they print never get printed.
> For example, they will look at a customer statement, call the customer and
> ask for a payment and then delete the statement.
>
>     The only thing that is changing is that instead of spooling the reports
> to a subdirectory on their SCO Unix server, they want me to spool the
> reports to a SMB subdirectory.
>
>     If they are working from home, they want to print some of these reports
> and forms to their home printer.  If they are working in the office, they
> are happy to print to the printers attached to the Unix server.
>
>     Facetwin used to be easy to setup.  Now with the domain thing, the ole
> "windows for workgroups" is a pain to setup in Facetwin.  And once I setup
> Facetwin and make "shares" on the SCo Unix server, how does that help me get
> to a shared subdirectory on a Windows Server?

It doesn't. I was speaking from the assumption that you wanted to print 
to shared printers. FacetWin makes that very easy.

>      And the Samba on the OSR 6 server is so old I'm afraid to use that to
> create shares.

You should be able to use the smb client from samba. You're not mounting 
or creating any shares. It's an ftp-like interface. You can use it 
manually to browse shares and upload and download files interactively in 
a basic/crude text interface just like ftp. And just like ftp, you can 
script it to do non-iteractive tasks. The oldness of samba shouldn't 
matter for this since you're not setting up a service. Most likely 
problem is maybe it can't handle some new form of authentication.

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bkw