Here are the magic command line commands to set up a Solaris
'lp' based print system to talk to LPRng AKA BSD printing and
pass options:
Solaris
the Sun Microsystems Solaris printing system is derived from the
System V UNIX system. Please see the Solaris, HP, and SysVR4 Derived
Systems installation information for a detailed description of how
to install LPRng and remove the Solaris Print Services.
If you want to simply forward jobs from a Solaris system to a BSD
print spooling system you can use the following commands to create
a printer. Check your specific system references and man pages for
options:
h4: {65} # lpsystem -t bsd servername # add server
h4: {65} # lpadmin -p pr -s servername -T unknown -I any # set up printer
h4: {65} # accept pr # enable queueing
h4: {65} # enable pr # enable printing
h4: {65} # lpstat -t # show status
scheduler is running
system for pr: servername
lp accepting requests since Mon Aug 6 12:00:00 PST 2000
Printer: pr@servername 'Hp : Laserwriter' (printing disabled)
Queue: 1 printable job
Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time
1 papowell@h4+207 A 207 h4.023205 3 18:24:54
The above commands will create the necessary directories and files
for the printer. If you want to use the lp -o option syntax to pass
options to the LPRng print spooler you will have to enable this by
hand. The /etc/printers.conf (this may be in some other directory
besides /etc) needs to be modified so that it allows options to be
passed using the Solaris convention, which is to put them on the
S or O line of the control file. For example:
#
# The preferred method of modifying this file is through the use of
# lpset(1M) or fncreate_printer(1M)
#
pr:bsdaddr=servername,pr,Solaris:
_default:use=pr:
The bsdaddr=host,printer[,Solaris] indicates that the entry is for
a remote RFC1179 printer on server host with name printer. The
Solaris option indicates that the Solars extensions to the RFC1179
protocol are to be used.
Patrick Powell Astart Technologies,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9475 Chesapeake Drive, Suite D,
Network and System San Diego, CA 92123
Consulting 858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424
LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.astart.com)
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