We are looking to use the Citrix Metaframe software to make the Baan client available to 3rd party partners of ours in a web browser.

One of the points we are trying to figure out is how to print to a printer at the 3rd party location. We use the FXPress package from Optio Software to create documents (B. of Lading, etc) and the user needs to have the paper output.

We are running on HPUX 11.0. We are working with Citrix support but I wondered if anybody on this board had figured this out already?

Regards
Rick

If I understood corectly BaaN is on "your side" and printer is on "client side".
Also the client is using Citrix to conect to BaaN.

If that's so, then, as far as I know, you have to setup the client printer in Citrix Metaframe.
However I don't think BaaN will have a problem with that. Citrix needs configurations.

I have a similar problem so if your Citrix support manage to install a local printer at 3-rd party site please give me some "clues" how they do it. ;)

Thanks and good luck.

To install printer in Citrix , you just need to add your printer in your local drive ( Client Side ) and then the same have to be added in Citrix window of the client. But you should keep one thing in your mind that the driver of printer should be compatible and should be installed in Citrix server.


Viplov

Citrix has a product, Metaframe for Unix, that looks like it is going to work. I have to use the Citrix web interface and metaframe for unix with bx6.1.

It is looking pretty good. I set up a Baan device to print to the remote client's print using Citrix command ctxlpr.

Rick,

Years ago I implemented a solution that works with Streamserve and Citrix. Streamserve is a similar product to Optio. Here is how I did it.

Baan running on a Unix server and Streamserve on a Windows server. I see your Baan install is on Unix. How about the optio server? Is it on the same server (life would be very simple if it were)?

- Create a device in Baan called DSS (Display Streamserve :).
- Send the ASCII output of Baan to the Streamserve server.
- Have Streamserve convert this file to PDF and place it in an folder that is beneath the ftp .
- Retrieve the pdf file as part of the process that did the print.
- Transfer the pdf file to the client (this would be the terminal server that is running the BW in your case and presented via Citrix) - use server2client()
- Launch the PDF file using appstart()
- Citrix can be setup to autocreate printers (do it for the default printer - speeds up the process of logging into citrix).
- User hits the print button to print to the default printer.