Sun Solaris 2.x Configuration; manage remote printer subsystem; remote printer queues- Page 21

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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 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). 

■

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 queue.

prnservername

 is the name of the print server (must match the 

entry in the 

/etc/hosts

 file or IP address).

prnserverservice

 is the print server BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1 

service.