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Locally or Networked Print to Windows local or networked printers versus printing to mainframe printers. Use the wizard to add a Windows printer. It does not matter if the printer is a local or network printer. The name of the new printer should be Unix-friendly i. Printer sharing is not necessary, and the share name does not matter. Unix will refer to the printer by its Windows printer name, not its share name.

Once the "Add Printer Wizard" completes, right-click the newly-added printer and choose "Properties" from the context menu. On the "General" tab, click "Printing Preferences On the "Advanced" tab, ensure that the check-box next to "Enable advanced printing features" is selected, then click the "Printing Defaults Click "OK" to close the printer properties dialog. Enable Windows Passthrough Printing. Specify to open "regedit" and click "OK". Change the value to "1". Close the Registry Editor window.

Restart the Print Spooler service. Return to the Services window that we left open previously. Right-click the "Print Spooler" service and choose "Restart" from the context menu. When prompted, confirm that you wish to restart other services also by clicking "Yes". Close the "Services" window. From the Unix system that will be printing to the Windows printer — OpenServer systems older than 5.

Instead, you should investigate setting-up a virtual local printer to act as a "wrapper" for the remote printer. This will give you a printer interface script that can act as your output filter and then forward your print jobs to the actual remote printer via the "lp" command.

Add the remote printer. The process for OpenServer will be detailed below. Adjust the procedure as appropriate for your system. Specify the "Host" as the IP address or host name of the Windows system that is hosting the printer.

Specify the "Printer" as the Windows printer name that you specified when you added the printer to the Windows system.