As of Dec. 1, 2005, if you do not set the printer your printouts should go to, it will be thrown away. The method to set your printer is different for Windows and Unix (Linux or Solaris).
For Windows
Setting a printer for an individual print job
Most Windows applications will allow you to choose the printer from a menu when you try to print something. Choose the appropriate printer.
Setting a printer for a session
To set a default printer for a login session (i.e. this setting will be forgotten once you log out), you can go to the printer settings control panel:
Start -> Settings -> Printers
then bring up the printer menu by placing the mouse over the printer's icon you want to print to and right-click, then select
Select As Default Printer
A check mark should appear over the printer icon of your choice.
Setting a permanent default printer for a workstation
To set a permanent default printer (for the workstation you are using: you'll have to repeat it for another workstation), go to
Start Menu -> Run ...
Then, type the following into the text input window:
\samba\win-share\SetDefaultPrinter
Then double-click the appropriate printer batch file. From then on, that will be your default printer for this particular workstation.
For Unix
Setting a printer for an individual print job
Some application (like firefox) will allow you to choose the printer. Most printing is done from the command line via lpr. You can tell lpr where to send the output to via the -P switch:
lpr -Pname file ...
Setting a printer for a login session
To set a default printer for a login session (i.e. this setting will be forgotten once you log out), you can set the environment variable PRINTER. In tcsh (the default shell), you can enter
setenv PRINTER name
Setting a permanent default printer for your MathNet Unix account
To permanently set a default printer for your Unix sessions, you can enter the above command to set your PRINTER environment variable in your startup script, found in your home directory:
~/.login