bemery@nmsu.edu (Bryan Emery) (10/03/90)
We have a DECstation running Ultrix and a MicroVAX II running VMS, both running DECnet. DEC tells me it should be possible to print directly from one to the printers accessible by the other directly. Does anyone know how to do this? They tell me I don't need additional software, either. But, my DECnet manuals don't say much about anything except using COPY or dcp. I would greatly appreciate any suggestions, pointers, etc. THANKS!! Bryan Emery Graduate Student New Mexico State University
dbb@riscy.enet.dec.com (dave barrett) (10/03/90)
In article <195@opus.NMSU.Edu> bemery@nmsu.edu (Bryan Emery) writes: >We have a DECstation running Ultrix and a MicroVAX II running VMS, both >running DECnet. DEC tells me it should be possible to print directly from >one to the printers accessible by the other directly. Does anyone know how >to do this? They tell me I don't need additional software, either. But, >my DECnet manuals don't say much about anything except using COPY or dcp. > >I would greatly appreciate any suggestions, pointers, etc. THANKS!! > >Bryan Emery >Graduate Student >New Mexico State University A quick man on dcp yields as the second option dcp -P, which prints on the default printer on the remote system. I use this all the time - works great!! David Barrett dbb@riscy.enet.dec.com ..!decwrl!riscy.enet!dbb
mwp@ubeaut.oz.au (Michael Paddon) (10/12/90)
From article <195@opus.NMSU.Edu>, by bemery@nmsu.edu (Bryan Emery): > We have a DECstation running Ultrix and a MicroVAX II running VMS, both > running DECnet. DEC tells me it should be possible to print directly from > one to the printers accessible by the other directly. Does anyone know how > to do this? They tell me I don't need additional software, either. But, > my DECnet manuals don't say much about anything except using COPY or dcp. > > I would greatly appreciate any suggestions, pointers, etc. THANKS!! The best way to set up shared printing is to hang the printer off a DECserver and use LAT to get the jobs there. From the Ultrix end, this entails simply enabling LAT and creating a printer in /etc/printcap that specifies the terminal server and port to use. If the printer is directly connected to a VMS box, dcp may be used to submit print jobs from Ultrix. There are two possiblities, the first being: dcp -P file vmsnode:: which will print the file on the default printer for the named VMS node. This assumes that one can copy into the default DECnet account. The other way is to set the input and output filters in /ect/printcap to a script which looks a bit like this: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% #!/bin/sh # # Lpd filter to push print jobs on to a VMS printer # VMSNODE=alicat VMSQUEUE=sys\$print ######################################################## PATH=/usr/ucb:/usr/bin:/bin export PATH prog=`basename "$0"` usage="usage: $prog [-c][-nlogin][-hhost][-wwidth][-lnum][-iindent][accounting]" user=nobody host=nowhere account=/dev/null for i do case "$i" in -n) user="$i" ;; -h) host="$i" ;; -c|-w|-l|-i) # ignore options ;; -*) echo "$prog: '$i': unrecognized option" echo "$usage" exit 1 ;; *) account="$i" ;; esac done echo "`date`: $user@$host printing to VMS node $VMSNODE" >> "$account" tmp="`hostname | sed -e 's/\..*$//'`_$$" data="$tmp.dat" batch="$tmp.com" dcp - ${VMSNODE}::$data dcp -S - ${VMSNODE}::$batch << EOF $ print /queue=$VMSQUEUE /delete ${VMSNODE}::$data $ delete $batch.* EOF exit 0 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Don't forget to set the lp device to /dev/null. This script copys the file to the VMS machine and then submits a job to print and delete it. The big gotcha is that the default DECnet account must have enough privileges to submit a batch job. Printing the other way, ie. VMS to Ultrix, is not as straightforward due to VMS inadequacies. Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Internet: paddon@meo78b.enet.dec.com | | | ACSnet: mwp@ubeaut.oz.au | | Michael Paddon | ACSnet: mwp@munnari.oz.au | | | EasyNet: meo78b::paddon | | | Voice: +61 3 895 9392 | -------------------------------------------------------------------