Sun Solaris 2.x Configuration; manage remote printer subsystem; remote printer queues- Page 22

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The procedure for pre-V4.0 systems is as follows.

1

Enter smit and select devices.

2

Select printer/plotter.

3

Select manage remote printer subsystem.

4

Select client services.

5

Select remote printer queues.

6

Select add a remote queue.

7

Enter the following remote queue settings:

■

Name of queue to add (user selectable).

■

Activate the queue (Yes).

■

Destination host (Print/Fax server name; must match name 

in 

/etc/hosts

 file or use the Print/Fax server IP address)

■

Name of queue on remote printer (Print/Fax server binary 

or text service name, eg. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1). 

■

Name of device to add (user selectable; for example 

lp0

).

Sun Solaris 2.x Configuration

Sun Solaris 2.x uses the lpsystem and lpadmin programs for remote 
printer configuration:

lpsystem -t bsd prnservername

lpadmin -p queue -s prnservername!prnserverservice

accept queue 

(not required on newer Solaris systems)

enable queue

(not required on newer Solaris systems)

Where 

queue

 is the name of the local Print/Fax queue.

prnservername

 is the name of the Print/Fax server (must match 

the entry in the 

/etc/hosts

 file or IP address).

prnserverservice

 is the print server BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1 

service.