[comp.sys.hp] how can I print to a remote lpr?

davidh8@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (David Haight) (10/03/90)

I want to print over the net to a printer attached to a machine
runing BSD lpr/lpd spooling.  How can I do this?

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 davidh8@pogo.WV.TEK.COM

lienhart@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lienhart) (10/04/90)

Assuming HPUX 7.0:

Using sam, choose the Periperal Devices entry on the main menu,
choose Printers and Plotters on the second menu, then choose
Add a Remote Printer.  Answer the questions shown on this next
menu, taking care to answer "y" to the Remote printer on a 
BSD system question.  Press Perform Task and that should do it!

Bob Lienhart

jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) (10/04/90)

lienhart@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bob Lienhart) writes:
>Using sam, [ ... ] Press Perform Task and that should do it!

A few details that might come up:  You must have rlpdaemon (or whatever)
running on the machine that is to accept print jobs.  All machines that
will submit print jobs should be in the /etc/hosts.equiv file on the
print server.  Other than that, remote printing has worked well to and
from HPs for us.

--
Jim Wright
jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.

jdunlap@milton.u.washington.edu (John Dunlap) (10/04/90)

I have implemented remote line printing from an HP-9000/375 with HP ARPA
Services to an HP-9000/550 with Wollongong TCP/IP by installing a "remsh"
command in the 375's line printer model that sends standard in to
the "lp" command on the 550.  This works very well.

I have also implemented remote line printing to a Masscomp-5600 RTU 4.0
by putting a script in our /usr/local/bin that does approximately
"remsh masscomp -l special_user \| lp".  This works very well also.

I will email the stuff to those interested.

John
dunlap@apl.washington.edu