From: Richard.Tierno@prisons.phila.gov Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 11:44 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Re: VMS / NT integration "dpc2" wrote in message news:... > Hello, all. I am a VMS newbie, thrust into admin role against my will. > Today, I installed an lpr que for the first time. And it actually worked! > Which experience made me wonder if I could create a VMS queue for a printer > served by an NT server queue. Which also led me to wonder if SMB or NFS > type interoperability with NT was available. > > If anyone can share their wisdom, I'd grateful. > > jean Yes, you can. First, you must have TCP/IP Print Services installed and started on the NT server. When you create the NT queue, you must create an LPR port for the queue giving it the IP address of the printer and the word "RAW" when prompted for the address of the server providing LPD services. Then create the queue on VMS using SYS$SYSTEM:TCPIP$LPRSETUP.EXE (or UCX$LPRSETUP.EXE if you are still running UCX). 1) "add" a printer 2) give it a name 3) it will be "remote" 4) no synonym 5) take default on spooler directory 6) no printserver extensions flag 7) remote system name will be the NT server 8) remote printer name will be the queue name on NT 9) take the default on the errorlog 10) turn on the pa and cr flags, they are both boolean, so give them the value of "on" when prompted That should do it, though you may have to assign a device control library. Most recently manufactured printers will use a laserjet library so start the queue with a /lib=SYSDEVCTL_LJ. At least, this is what works for me. Richard Tierno Systems Manager Philadelphia Prison System