> I have spent some time trying to figure out the working configuration for > being able to print on a network (postscript) printer oki5900dn. > I know its IP address. > > But I haven't succeeded so far. > > I prepared a PS file, say a.ps. > I removed the '!' letter from rc/bin/service/!tcp515, so now I > have rc/bin/service/tcp515. > I added a line to /sys/lib/lp/devices like this: > oki next_door localhost tcp!192.113.32.182!9100 81920 post+duplex ...
If there is some machine that is already in charge of spooling to the printer, you would be better off handing the job to that machine instead of connecting directly to the printer, since many printers don't handle multiple connections on 9100 particularly gracefully. To hand the job to another machine via the fairly standard LPD protocol, see the "vogon" line in /sys/lib/lp/devices for an example. If you are going to set up your own machine as the one in charge of the printer (as you have tried), you have to use a resolvable address where you put "localhost". On Plan 9, "localhost" is not a known name--it doesn't make sense in config files, which are usually shared across many machines--and by default there is no network devices for 127.0.0.1. You can add an entry for your machine to /lib/ndb/local and then use your machine's name in the /sys/lib/lp/devices line. Russ
