FW: Can you tell me anything about the printer destination WIN:printer-SHARENAME ?

[john at timescape.com]

----Original Message-----
From: FacetCorp Support Team <support at facetcorp.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2022 9:18 AM
To: john at timescape.com
Subject: Re: Can you tell me anything about the printer destination WIN:printer-SHARENAME ?

John,

Feel free to post!!   

I made a few typo corrections and removed a confusing explanatory note.

I am------------------------------------ inserting the revised writeup below this line that will be better to post.

Will,\\Will,
As I told you, I've been looking for the specifics for local or remote [printing for about 6 months now, and your step-by-step article here totally covers it on both the SCO side *and* the Windows10 side... Amazing. Can't thank you enough, and I know the filePro people on the FP mailing list and FP Technologies itself will really appreciate this!

/john


>From Will at Facetwin Support  -  To John at Timescape
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I am sending you steps for adding a FacetWin remote printer (printer attach to PC) on the SCO server so that you should be able use from FilePro.

ON THE WINDOWS PC:

1) Share the printer in Windows on the Sharing tab on the Windows PC.

2) Note the Share name because it is needed for adding the printer on the Unix server.

3) Changes needed to be made on Windows PC to allow connections from the UNIX server to the shared printer.

Change the security option on the client Windows PC:
Administrative Tools
Local Security Policy
Local Policies
Security Options
Network security: LAN Manager authentication level:
Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated

Change the security option on Windows PC:
Administrative Tools
Local Security Policy
Local Policies
Security Options
Microsoft Network: Digitally sign communications (always): Disabled 

Apply change and then reboot Windows PC.


ON THE UNIX SERVER:

If FacetWin is installed on the Unix server, you can see the fct_rlpadmin options that are used by running the following Unix command:

man fct_rlpadmin

This script is used for adding a remote printer from the UNIX system.
Reference the output of the "man fct_rlpdmin" for the explanation of the options used in the example command below. 

The printer in this example will be called "hp".


This is an example to add the "hp" printer on the Unix system.

fct_rlpadmin -a hp -n win10pc -r hp -u administrator -p password


After the script has finished, the printer is ready to be used.
Remember that "fct_" has been prepended to the printer name.

Run the following command to list the printers.

lpstat -t

To print a UNIX file named "file1" on this printer using the "lp" UNIX command, you would enter:

lp -d fct_hp file1

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On Nov 28, 2022, <john at timescape.com> wrote:
> Will,
> 
> This is the most fantastic piece of email I have gotten this entire 
> year, and maybe in the past 10 years!  I have been practically begging 
> people on the filePro list for this kind of a simple/easy step-by-step 
> approach to adding a printer on both sides, the Unix side and the 
> Windows10 side.  I can not thank you enough for taking the time to 
> write this all out so completely in a way that an idiot like me can 
> not only understand it, but *do* it!  ��
> 
> Thank you so very much.  If this was somewhere already in your docs, my apologies, for not being able to put my fingers on it... I did try, but I have been very "out to lunch" since I broke my back on October 5th!  Yes, actually did.  I've been essentially laid up since then, Can only get up to walk for critically important things, and it looks like I will need to stay this way for another 3 or 4 weeks!  ☹  ☹(  It is so hard to even imagine doing that now that I am a little more *able* to really get up and walk around.
> 
> I have been using the computer infrequently, and I've been taking doses of a medicine that basically puts me to sleep, so concentrating even when I *am* awake is difficult to say the least.
> 
> I did look a little through the Facetwin docs, and I tried a couple things with various environment vars on the SCO side like PRINTER=local and lots more things like even setting up a NFS share for the IP based printer shared on the Windows side, all got me as far into nowhere as one can get. . So I had essentially given up!
> 
> You see why I'm thanking you so much... this was exceptionally good of you.  
> 
> I am in your debt once again!
> 
> John
> 
> --
> John Esak
> Tucson, Arizona
> 
> P.S. - Would you mind if I post this on the filePro mailing list.  I 
> think most of them would appreciate this routine as much as I do, and 
> I'm pretty sure, no one knows these steps in quite this simple of a 
> way to do it.  Many of use Facetwin, but it looks like this would 
> work for any terminal-based emulator that can handle the transparent 
> printing on the Windows10 side.  For me and the systems I use, it's 
> always Facetwin though, so I'm not sure you are willing to give out 
> such rent-paying information! Let me know.  ��
> 
> /john
>   
> You have made a project I've been trying to do for months a simple thing now.  Thanks!