MultiView 2000® & MultiView 2000 Server Edition Support

How To:  Set Up LPR/LPD for SCO UNIX

This documentation assumes that you have configured a printer for your Windows machine and that you can print to this printer using Windows applications like Word or Notepad. It also assumes that you will be able to login to your UNIX machine as root and that you have prior knowledge of how to navigate the character-based scoadmin or the GUI printer manager.

Pre-Configuration Checks on the PC side:

After installing MultiView 2000 make sure that the Remote Print Server is running on your PC. (Choose Start > Programs > MultiView 2000 > Remote Print Server. This should start an icon on your Windows Task Bar that looks like a little printer. You can double-click on the icon to open it).

Within the Remote Print Server choose the “Printers” tab and you will see a list of printers available to you. Make a note of the queue name of the printer that you will be configuring on the UNIX side. If you would like to change the queue name, click Properties and type in the desired queue name.

Configuring the printer on the UNIX machine:

1. Log in as root.
2. Verify that you can ping your PC from the UNIX machine. You will need the IP address or fully-qualified domain name of the PC for configuring the remote printer on UNIX.
3. Start scoadmin and choose Printers>Printer Manager.
4. On the menu bar, within the Printer Manager, choose Printer > Add Remote > UNIX.
5. Enter the Host name (either the fully-qualified domain name, or the IP, of your PC).
6. In the “Printer” field, you must enter the queue name that you found in the Remote Print Server on the PC.
7. Make sure that you clear the box marked “Use extended remote printing protocol”.
8. Choose [OK]. This creates the printer.

Regarding the listed items in the Message box:

1. This instruction is not relevant. The UNIX machine does not know that we are creating this printer on a PC, so this message does not apply to us.
2. Done by default.
3. Done by default.

So you can choose [OK]

Your printer has now been configured. To test it, enter the following at a UNIX prompt:

# lp –d (printer name) (filename)