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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:

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


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:

  1. Establish physical connections.

  2. Configure networking drivers.

  3. Configure the appropriate protocol stack.

  4. Configure local and remote printers with the SCOadmin Printer Manager.
Additional configuration is required for each remote printing procedure.

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