Conference lassie::ucx

5567.0. "Jetdirect (hp) vs NETJET (emulex)" by UTRTSC::KNOPPERS (Oswald Knoppers) Fri Jun 06 1997 05:23

Note about HP laserjet printers and LPD.

Most of these printers contain a Jetdirect card (made by HP) but some of
them have an Emulex NETJET card. These cards also implement LPD. One of the
differences is the queue names. Jetdirect cards have TEXT and RAW, the 
NETJET has TEXT and PASSTHRU. Below is an article from Emulex on how to
configure UCX LPD for NETJET.

Regards,

Oswald

Technical Note # 42
Creation Date:                  08/04/94
Modification Date:              08/04/94
Revision:                       1
Server Model:                   Printer and Comm Servers
Software Version:               2.1 or higher for communications servers 
				3.0 or higher for printer servers
Subject:                        Application Note -- Digital UCX LPD printing 
				from VMS    

Solution/Procedure:

Software: This note covers general settings for Digital's UCX product under 
VMS using LPD to print. This document assumes that the UCX$CONFIG.COM 
procedure has been run to properly configure LPD on the VMS system. It also 
assumes the Emulex server has been configured appropriatly for LPD.

UCX configures printers via a utility called UCX$LPRSETUP. You execute this 
utility with this command:

$run sys$system:ucx$lprsetup.exe

It will prompt the user for many pieces of information that should be obvious 
for the SYSTEM ADMIN person. The pieces of information needed that are 
directly related to Emulex servers are the node name of the server from the 
UCX setup and a remote printer name. The other items in the utility are 
specific to the VMS queue setup. See the UCX and VMS documentation for 
correctly configuring these parameters.

When you first run this utility, it will ask you the type of queue. Answer 
remote to this question.

When prompted for the remote machine name, give the name of the Emulex server 
registered with UCX in its hosts table. See the UCX documentation on how to 
define a host.

When prompted for the remote printer name, give it TEXT for normal text files 
and PASSTHRU for postscript or graphics printing. If you need to print both 
types of data to the same printer, two separate queues will need to be built 
using the appropriate name of TEXT or PASSTHRU.

Once UCX$LPRSETUP.EXE is finished, it will ask if you wish to start the queue. 
Answer yes.

Now, using the normal VMS PRINT command, you can send jobs through the queue.

 
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