hallt@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (Tim C. Hall) (12/14/90)
Got a question:
We have two AT&T 3B2 hosts running UUCP. One has a printer attached,
and we wish to allow the other host to send print jobs remotely via UUCP.
How is this best achieved? Any comments, or, better yet, experiences
with accomplishing the above feat would be highly appreciated. Please
send all replies to thall%spacecom.spacenet-gw.af.mil@server.af.mil
Thanks for all your help.
Tim C. Hall, System Administrator
Air Force Space Command
thall%spacecom.spacenet-gw.af.mil@server.af.milcmilono@netcom.UUCP (Carlo Milono) (12/15/90)
I have implemented this using UUX commands; below is a sample command which can be included in a standard lp/interfaces script, as appropriate. uux "remote!lp !myfile1" [this would print myfile on a printer on remote] Of course, you could use any/all flags to the standard lp command such as the '-d' option; as shown above, the local file would print on the remote machine's DEFAULT printer (assuming a default has been chosen!). You could also specify options with the '-o', etc. BTW, the double quotes appear to be necessary... -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Carlo Milono: netcom!cmilono@apple.com or apple!netcom!cmilono | |"When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, | |that the dunces are all in confederacy against him." - Jonathan Swift | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans) (12/15/90)
In <18809@netcom.UUCP> cmilono@netcom.UUCP (Carlo Milono) writes: >I have implemented this using UUX commands; below is a sample command >which can be included in a standard lp/interfaces script, as appropriate. >uux "remote!lp !myfile1" [this would print myfile on a printer on remote] You must also "authorize" the 'lp' command to be executed via uux. This involves the /usr/lib/uucp/L.cmds or /usr/lib/uucp/Permissions files (which depends on which version of UUCP you are running. -- UUCP: {rutgers|ames|uunet}!mimsy!woodb!fallst!tkevans INTERNET: tkevans%fallst@wb3ffv.ampr.org Tim Evans 2201 Brookhaven Ct, Fallston, MD 21047
woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods) (12/17/90)
In article <11702@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> hallt@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (Tim C. Hall) writes: > We have two AT&T 3B2 hosts running UUCP. One has a printer attached, > and we wish to allow the other host to send print jobs remotely via UUCP. > How is this best achieved? Any comments, or, better yet, experiences > with accomplishing the above feat would be highly appreciated. Please > send all replies to thall%spacecom.spacenet-gw.af.mil@server.af.mil > Thanks for all your help. No problem. Here are a couple of handy lp model scripts that I've used with great success. To set them up, the "server" (i.e. the machine with the printer), must have an appropriately configured lp, and have UUCP permissions for 'lp', and perhaps 'uncompress', made available to the client machines: The file remote_mach contains a list of printers and the machines to which they are attatched. Lp on all machines should be configured with the same printer names on all machines. Note: I use this with some SysVr3.0 and SysVr3.1 machines (and it will work on 3b1's too), but I've never had much chance to do anything like this for SysVr3.2. I suspect 3.2 has more complex facilities to do the same thing. #! /bin/sh # This is a shell archive. Remove anything before this line, then feed it # into a shell via "sh file" or similar. To overwrite existing files, # type "sh file -c". # The tool that generated this appeared in the comp.sources.unix newsgroup; # send mail to comp-sources-unix@uunet.uu.net if you want that tool. # If this archive is complete, you will see the following message at the end: # "End of shell archive." # Contents: usr/spool/lp/remote_mach # usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaser # usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaserZ # Wrapped by woods@eci386 on Sun Dec 16 14:14:14 1990 PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb ; export PATH if test -f 'usr/spool/lp/remote_mach' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'usr/spool/lp/remote_mach'\" else echo shar: Extracting \"'usr/spool/lp/remote_mach'\" \(33 characters\) sed "s/^X//" >'usr/spool/lp/remote_mach' <<'END_OF_FILE' XAppleLaser gate XAppleLaserZ gate END_OF_FILE if test 33 -ne `wc -c <'usr/spool/lp/remote_mach'`; then echo shar: \"'usr/spool/lp/remote_mach'\" unpacked with wrong size! fi # end of 'usr/spool/lp/remote_mach' fi if test -f 'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaser' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaser'\" else echo shar: Extracting \"'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaser'\" \(517 characters\) sed "s/^X//" >'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaser' <<'END_OF_FILE' X# X# lp interface for a remote printer X# X# XPATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lbin:/usr/local/bin ; export PATH X XPRINTER=`basename $0` XTITLE=$3 XCOPIES=$4 XOPTIONS=$5 Xshift; shift; shift; shift; shift Xfiles="$*" X XMACHINE=`mktable /usr/spool/lp/remote_mach | awk '$1~/^'$PRINTER'$/ {print $2}'` X Xecho "`date +%D-%T`:$PRINTER:$MACHINE:$RAW:-t$TITLE:-o$OPTIONS:-n$COPIES:$files" >> /usr/spool/lp/remlog X Xfor F in $files Xdo X FILES="$FILES !$F" Xdone Xuux -n -C "$MACHINE!lp -c -d$PRINTER '-t$TITLE' '-o$OPTIONS' -n$COPIES $FILES" Xexit 0 END_OF_FILE if test 517 -ne `wc -c <'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaser'`; then echo shar: \"'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaser'\" unpacked with wrong size! fi chmod +x 'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaser' # end of 'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaser' fi if test -f 'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaserZ' -a "${1}" != "-c" ; then echo shar: Will not clobber existing file \"'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaserZ'\" else echo shar: Extracting \"'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaserZ'\" \(523 characters\) sed "s/^X//" >'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaserZ' <<'END_OF_FILE' X# X# lp interface for a remote printer X# X# XPATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/lbin:/usr/local/bin ; export PATH X XPRINTER=`basename $0` XTITLE=$3 XCOPIES=$4 XOPTIONS=$5 Xshift; shift; shift; shift; shift Xfiles="$*" X XMACHINE=`mktable /usr/spool/lp/remote_mach | awk '$1~/^'$PRINTER'$/ {print $2}'` X Xecho "`date +%D-%T`:$PRINTER:$MACHINE:$RAW:-t$TITLE:-o$OPTIONS:-n$COPIES:$files" >> /usr/spool/lp/remlog X Xfor F in $files Xdo X uux -n -C "$MACHINE!uncompress < !$F | lp -c -d`basename $PRINTER Z` '-t$TITLE' '-o$OPTIONS' -n$COPIES" Xdone Xexit 0 END_OF_FILE if test 523 -ne `wc -c <'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaserZ'`; then echo shar: \"'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaserZ'\" unpacked with wrong size! fi chmod +x 'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaserZ' # end of 'usr/spool/lp/interface/AppleLaserZ' fi echo shar: End of shell archive. exit 0 -- Greg A. Woods woods@{eci386,gate,robohack,ontmoh,tmsoft}.UUCP ECI and UniForum Canada +1-416-443-1734 [h] +1-416-595-5425 [w] VE3TCP Toronto, Ontario CANADA Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible-ORWELL
rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel) (12/18/90)
In article <11702@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> hallt@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (Tim C. Hall) writes: > >Got a question: > We have two AT&T 3B2 hosts running UUCP. One has a printer attached, >and we wish to allow the other host to send print jobs remotely via UUCP. >How is this best achieved? Any comments, or, better yet, experiences >with accomplishing the above feat would be highly appreciated. Please There is a remote interface included with 3B1's that shows how it can be done. The concept is simple. Just make an interface that redirects the output to a file and then uucp the file to the destination. Then, do a uux on the remote machine (the calling machine will have to have permission to run lp remotely which is setup in /usr/lib/uucp/Permissions) to lp the file that was uucp'd.
norm@cfctech.cfc.com (Norman J. Meluch) (12/19/90)
In article <11702@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> hallt@handel.CS.ColoState.Edu (Tim C. Hall) writes: {T} Got a question: {T} We have two AT&T 3B2 hosts running UUCP. One has a printer attached, {T} and we wish to allow the other host to send print jobs remotely via UUCP. {T} How is this best achieved? In response rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel) writes: {B} The concept is simple. Just make an interface that redirects {B} the output to a file and then uucp the file to the destination. Then, {B} do a uux on the remote machine. {T} Any comments, or, better yet, experiences {T} with accomplishing the above feat would be highly appreciated. No sweat. As Bob pointed out it really is simple to do. We implemented the same thing here on our Chrysler 3B2s. Of course, there is a lot of fluff that you can add to make things work "better" but the concept was: just copy the file that the user wants to print, and then do a remote uux of the command lp, then remove the copy. The heart and soul of our script to do this looks like this: # # Print the file on remote computer # ${CAT} ${SPOOLNAME} | \ ${UUX} - ${MACHINE}!"${LPCMD} ${REMOTEP} ${OPTIONS}" & Of course our script fills in all of the variable names as needed. Like Also note that the "-" as the second parm of uux is real important. One of the biggest troubles that we had doing this was realizing that the options that are set *really need* to be passed in the uux. Hence laser jets will not function properly if you do not `lp -d <printer> -o"stty=-opost"` and if you do not pass that -opost you're in trouble. Good luck. - Norm. -- |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Norman J. Meluch ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | Mail: norm@cfctech.cfc.com Fax:(313)948-4975 Voice:(313)948-4809 | | Note: The opinions expressed here are in no way to be confused with valid | |_______ideas or corporate policy.____________________________________________|
jon@jonlab.UUCP (Jon H. LaBadie) (12/19/90)
In article <1868@fallst.UUCP>, tkevans@fallst.UUCP (Tim Evans) writes: > In <18809@netcom.UUCP> cmilono@netcom.UUCP (Carlo Milono) writes: > > >I have implemented this using UUX commands; below is a sample command > >which can be included in a standard lp/interfaces script, as appropriate. > > >uux "remote!lp !myfile1" [this would print myfile on a printer on remote] > > You must also "authorize" the 'lp' command to be executed via uux. On some versions of UNIX in which I have done this, the data files were removed as soon as the remote lp command was executed. However, the printing via lpsched occurred at some later time and had no data files to print. Thus, it was necessary to either write a customized shell script to copy the data files to a safe location (then administrative cleanup was required), pass the files to lp via standard in ("lp < data"), or use the copy option ("-c") of lp to force it to make private copies of the data that it automatically deletes upon printing. Jon -- Jon LaBadie {att, princeton, bcr, attmail!auxnj}!jonlab!jon