(Answer) (Category) SCO UnixWare 7/OpenUNIX 8/OpenServer 6 FAQ : (Category) User Related Information :
How do I use VisionFS to print to a Windows shared printer?
The trick to setting up VisionFS is to read the PDF file that they tuck away in this path:

        file:/usr/vision/bin/pctools/en_US/docs/vfsintro.pdf
Here's the nuts and bolts of the subject. When you have a WindowsNT or Win2K computer with a shared printer attached to it, if you have an account on that computer and rights to print on it, then you're set on the Windows side.
As root, it's helpful if you make a symlink to the visionfs program in /usr/local/bin so that your users don't have to modify all their paths.
# ln -s /usr/vision/bin/visionfs /usr/local/bin/visionfs
Then get the list of shared printers on the NT host "luke." Print to one of them:
$ visionfs print //luke --user matthew Password for matthew? ********** P2D2 <Active> 0 jobs EPSON800 <Active> 0 jobs
$ visionfs print //luke/P2D2 /var/tmp/printout --user matthew Password for matthew? *********** Your print job is ###


  Summary:    gs @stc800p.upp -sOutputFile=/var/tmp/printout tiger.ps -c quit
  Summary:    visionfs print //luke --user matthew
  Summary:    visionfs print //luke/P2D2 /var/tmp/printout --user matthew

      There's a way to make a unix printer that you can just lp the
    file to and skip the visionfs print command.  That's in the manual.

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