IBM RS/6000 AIX Configuration; Peripheral Devices; Print Spooling- Page 20

UNIX PRINTING 1 - 8

Earlier versions of HP-UX use similar procedures to 10.xx users:

1

Enter sam and select Peripheral Devices and then Add 
Remote Printer (not Networked printer).

2

Enter the following remote printer settings (the other settings do 
not matter):

■

Line printer name (user-selectable).

■

Remote system name (the print server name; must match 
what is in hosts file or use print server IP address).

■

Remote printer queue (Print server binary or text service 

name, e.g. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1). 

■

Remote Printer is on a BSD System (Yes).

IBM RS/6000 AIX Configuration

The RS/6000 AIX operating system uses the smit program to set up 
the remote printer. The procedure is as follows for AIX 4.0 and later:

1

Enter smit and select devices.

2

Select Printer/Plotter.

3

Select Print Spooling.

4

Select Add a Print Queue.

5

Select Remote.

6

Enter the following Remote Printer Settings:

Name of queue (user selectable)
Host name of Remote Printer (print server name; must match 
name in 

/etc/hosts

 file or use the print server IP address)

Name of queue on remote printer (print server binary or text 
service name, eg. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1).
Type of print spooler. BSD (press the LIST button and choose 
BSD)