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.

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

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

NOTE: SCO OpenServer offers Samba File and Print Server for SCO OpenServer, a product that provides distributed filesystem and printing services.

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.