network printing on an Win2k network.

network printing on an Win2k network.

[Robert Correllus]

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This week-end our IT staff changed our network from an NT based server
to a win2k server.  I edited my ".emacs" file to reflect the changes,
using the NT net address format that had been working, but now I don't
seem to be able to print.  Does any one have any ideas?  I have included
the print section from my .emacs file.  The server named "erp" was the
NT server and rsema3-ftpprint is the new server.

 

;; Set Printer Name

;;(setq ps-printer-name "\\\\rsema3-ftpprint\\HPLJ5000-PS")

;;(setq ps-printer-name "\\\\rsema3-ftpprint\\HPLJ4100")

;;(setq ps-printer-name "\\\\erp\\HPLJ4100")

;;(setq ps-printer-name "C:/PRN")

 

(require 'ps-print)

(setq ps-lpr-command "print")

;(setq ps-lpr-switches "\\\\rsema3-ftpprint\\HPLJ4100"); the printer
name

(setq ps-lpr-switches "\\\\rsema3-ftpprint\\HPLJ5000-ps"); the printer
name

(setq ps-lpr-buffer "c:\\temp\\psspool.ps")       ; a tmp spool file

 

 

 

results of net :

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Z:\>net view \\rsema3-ftpprint

Shared resources at \\rsema3-ftpprint

 

 

 

Share name   Type         Used as  Comment

 

------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------

Canton Fiery X3E

             Print                 Canton Fiery X3E

HPLJ2200     Print                 HP LaserJet 2200

HPLJ4100     Print                 HP LaserJet 4100 Series PCL

HPLJ4100-MFFLR

             Print                 HPLJ4100-MFFLR

HPLJ5000-PCL Print                 HPLJ5000 Series PCL

HPLJ5000-PS  Print                 HPLJ5000 Series PS

MinoltaDi251-PCL

             Print                 Minolta Di251-PCL

MinoltaDi251-PS

             Print                 Minolta Di251-PS

The command completed successfully.

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Robert Correllus


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Re: network printing on an Win2k network.

[Data64]

"Robert Correllus" <rcorrellus@fibersense.com> wrote in
news:mailman.4219.1049740066.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org: 

....

> 
> ;(setq ps-lpr-switches "\\\\rsema3-ftpprint\\HPLJ4100"); the printer
> name
> 
> (setq ps-lpr-switches "\\\\rsema3-ftpprint\\HPLJ5000-ps"); the printer
> name

....

> 
> Robert Correllus
> 

Try "//rsema3-ftpprint/HPLJ5000-ps"

dat64

Re: network printing on an Win2k network.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Robert Correllus" <rcorrellus@fibersense.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:25:19 -0400
> 
> This week-end our IT staff changed our network from an NT based server
> to a win2k server.  I edited my ".emacs" file to reflect the changes,
> using the NT net address format that had been working, but now I don't
> seem to be able to print.  Does any one have any ideas?

The manual does (see the section "MS-DOS Printing"): use the "net
use" command to map the networked printer to a printer port such as
LPT3, then set ps-printer-name to that port's name.

Re: network printing on an Win2k network.

[Peter J. Acklam]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> wrote:

> The manual does (see the section "MS-DOS Printing"): use the "net
> use" command to map the networked printer to a printer port such as
> LPT3, then set ps-printer-name to that port's name.

I use this on Windows XP and it works perfectly ("HOST" and
"Printer" must be set appropriately)

      (setq-default ps-lpr-command "print")
      (setq-default ps-printer-name "\\\\HOST\\Printer")
      (setq-default ps-printer-name-option "/D:")
      (setq-default ps-lpr-switches nil)
      (setq-default ps-spool-config nil)

With Ghostscript installed one can get the usual Windows printer
dialog thing with

      (setq-default ps-lpr-command "gsprint.exe")
      (setq-default ps-printer-name t)
      (setq-default ps-printer-name-option nil)
      (setq ps-lpr-switches '("-query")) ; show printer dialog

Peter

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Re: network printing on an Win2k network.

[Harald Joerg]

pjacklam@online.no (Peter J. Acklam) writes:

> I use this on Windows XP and it works perfectly ("HOST" and
> "Printer" must be set appropriately)
> 
>       (setq-default ps-lpr-command "print")
>       (setq-default ps-printer-name "\\\\HOST\\Printer")
>       [...]

That's what I had, too, but...

> With Ghostscript installed one can get the usual Windows printer
> dialog thing with
> 
>       (setq-default ps-lpr-command "gsprint.exe")
>       (setq-default ps-printer-name t)
>       (setq-default ps-printer-name-option nil)
>       (setq ps-lpr-switches '("-query")) ; show printer dialog

I really like this one!  Thanks for the hint!

This inspired me to look for a solution for emacs under cygwin.  Under
cygwin, emacs appears *not* to create a file which can be fed to
gsprint (Customize claims that it does so under "MS-DOS and MS-Windows
systems"), but to pipe the buffer (or region) to whatever is defined
in ps-lpr-command.  I came up with a small shell procedure gsprint.sh:

    #!/usr/bin/bash
    TMPFILE=`mktemp -t emacs.print.XXXXX` || exit 1
    cat >$TMPFILE
    /$CYGPATH_TO_gsview/gsprint.exe -query "`cygpath -w $TMPFILE`"

...and set ps-lpr-command to "gsprint.sh".
-- 
Cheers,
haj