Hi! On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 04:32:40PM -0400, Knape, Dean wrote: > Sorry this is not lprng specific but I figure you are a great bunch of people to ask. > > Is anyone using Solaris 8 dhcp to serve up what's needed for printers to get their > configs from a tftp server?
Our setup is somewhat different (our printers speak BOOTP to an ISC dhcpd instead of DHCP to a Solaris dhcpd) but I expect the resulting differences are minor ones. Also, we are only booting HP printers this way. The only two things our printers want to know are which file to get from what server. The server is taken from the usual "next server" entry, defaulting to the machine the boot reply came from. The file name is taken from a "vendor extension" field a.k.a. "DHCP option" in DHCP speak. You will have to determine which "option code" the printer expects; for HP printers this code is 144. So add an option with code 144 and the config file name (relative to the tftpd root dir) as value to your dhcp entry, and you should be fine. > > We currently only have HP printers to support so I could use HP provided utils, ie. > Jetdirect installer for Solaris. I am just afraid that that might limit us if we > have to support Xerox printers, for example, in the future. This is somewhat outdated information because we abandoned the HP network printing tools some years ago but I would recommend caution when dealing with HP manufactured printing related software for Solaris. The installation routines used to "improve" our system configuration so HP supplied (and thoroughly lobotomized) daemons were started instead of their Solaris counterparts and the like. Since HP printers network boot fine from standard software we decided that HP software was not worth the pain of fixing our /etc directory after every installation. Of course, if you use printers from a different manufacturer, you may have to do a test installation of whatever software they provide, just to see how they do these things and to incorporate the information into your dhcpd configuration. Hope this helps a little, Ralph R��ner -- Ralph R��ner TU Darmstadt EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FB Informatik ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
