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Does anyone know how (if) I can get the Macs in our lab to see the printing queue that's on the (Windows) server? Right now they are all accessing one of our two printers via LPR, and I would dearly love to have print jobs sent from the Macs actually appear in the controllable queue on hydrogen, rather than the direct printing whether we like it or not (and whether the patron pays for it or not). The queue is set up via "printer pooling" of the two printers attached to the server.
I feel this should be possible because there was a time in the past when the Macs did show up in the queue. However, those were days of different hardware and software (PowerMacs with 8.6, an NT server, and 3 Apple LaserWriters; today we have iMacs and G4s with 9.2.2, a Win2K server, and 2 HP LaserJets), so it may be that it's not possible with the current setup. This also seems like it should be possible if only we were running 10.3, but we're not, and that's not something I can change, so that's moot.
Any ideas?
I feel this should be possible because there was a time in the past when the Macs did show up in the queue. However, those were days of different hardware and software (PowerMacs with 8.6, an NT server, and 3 Apple LaserWriters; today we have iMacs and G4s with 9.2.2, a Win2K server, and 2 HP LaserJets), so it may be that it's not possible with the current setup. This also seems like it should be possible if only we were running 10.3, but we're not, and that's not something I can change, so that's moot.
Any ideas?