Re: Printing from Citrix Winframe

[Albert Howard <starbuckk@mailroom.com>]

How are you sending the print job to the printer?  It sounds like you are
using a utility to print the report, such as NOTEPAD, etc.  To print a .LIS
file to a network printer, you need to redirect LPT1 to a network printer
and use a DOS Copy command, or specify LPT1 in the Process Scheduler
destination.  For Microsoft networks, use

NET USE LPT1 \\computername\sharename /persistant:yes

For Novell networks use the CAPTURE command.  Sorry I don't remember the
syntax for that one.

At 04:11 PM 9/13/99 +0800, you wrote:
>We are currently evaluating Citrix Winframe 1.7 for use by some of our
>remote users on our PeopleSoft HRMS 5.8 system, and are having some issues
>with the printing.
>
>SQR to the client runs (albeit slowly but my colleague found on Customer
>Connection this was an acknowledged problem) however the printout loses the
>formatting, ie it comes out portrait instead of landscape and hence gets
>chopped.
>
>Also Crystal Reports runs to the Window, then you can press the Print button
>and it goes to the default printer.  However if we tell PeopleSoft to send
>the report to the printer from the Run Control the Process Monitor simply
>reports a status of 'Error'.
>
>Has anybody successfully implemented this?  Note that due to our current
>version of PeopleSoft we are limited to the Winframe 1.7 product and cannot
>use NT4 Windows Terminal Server or Citrix Metaframe.
>
>TIA
>
>Wayne Ivory
>Information Services
>Iluka Resources Limited