Networking overview

Distributed printing

Local printing generally refers to sending print jobs via lp(C) to a printer attached to your computer via a serial or parallel port. Distributed printing enables you to use the network to send print jobs to printers attached to networked hosts and to send jobs from remote hosts to a local printer.

To print remotely from your SCO OpenServer Desktop or Enterprise systems, you can:

Send a print job to a printer attached to another SCO OpenServer or compatible UNIX system by using RLP, the remote line printing component of TCP/IP.
Send a print job to a printer attached to a NetWare print server by using the print facilities of SCO Gateway for NetWare.
Send a print job to a printer attached to a LAN Manager for UNIX print server by using the print facilities of LAN Manager Client.

To print remotely to your SCO OpenServer Desktop or Enterprise systems, you can:

Send a print job from a DOS or OS/2 computer to an SCO OpenServer Desktop or Enterprise system running pcnfsd(NADM), a component of NFS .
Send a print job from a NetWare computer to an SCO OpenServer Desktop or Enterprise system running IPX/SPX.

NOTE: SCO OpenServer offers two additional products that provide distributed filesystem and printing services: SCO Advanced File and Print Server and Samba File and Print Server for SCO OpenServer. These products are included on the Optional Services CD-ROM. See the Optional Services README files for more information.

Configuring remote printing

To configure remote printing, you must complete the following procedures:

Establish physical connections.
Configure networking drivers.
Configure the appropriate protocol stack.
Configure local and remote printers with the SCOadmin Printer Manager.

Additional configuration is required for each remote printing procedure.