[comp.unix.aix] Remote printing in AIX 1.2

kakazu@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Gary Kakazu) (11/27/90)

This should be an easy one (I hope!)

I've got 4 PS/2's hooked together through ethernet.  All I want to do
is print a file from Machine 1 on a printer connected to Machine 2.
I haven't found the answer in a manual yet.  I have uncommented the appropriate
lines in /etc/qconfig and supplied the print machines name.  Still no luck.


Thanks in advance

Gary Kakazu
kakazu@theory.tn.cornell.edu

J.Crowcroft@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Jon Crowcroft) (11/28/90)

 >I've got 4 PS/2's hooked together through ethernet.  All I want to do
 >is print a file from Machine 1 on a printer connected to Machine 2.
 >I haven't found the answer in a manual yet.  I have uncommented the appropriate
 >lines in /etc/qconfig and supplied the print machines name.  Still no luck.

try also adding  each host to the /etc/hosts.lpd file, and restarting
the qdaemon';s on each (or rebooting them all)...

but that still doesnt answer my remote printing AIX 1.2 -> AIX 3.1
prob...

cheers

 jon

jackv@turnkey.tcc.com (Jack F. Vogel) (11/28/90)

In article <1990Nov26.164001.27772@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> kakazu@theory.tn.cornell.edu (Gary Kakazu) writes:
 
>I've got 4 PS/2's hooked together through ethernet.  All I want to do
>is print a file from Machine 1 on a printer connected to Machine 2.
>I haven't found the answer in a manual yet.  I have uncommented the appropriate
>lines in /etc/qconfig and supplied the print machines name.  Still no luck.
 
Are these 4 systems running as a TCF cluster?? Because that's what the names
in the qconfig files are used for, its not something like specifying a remote
host name. If you are just running 4 sites on an ethernet without TCF then
what you must do is use the "remote back end" on the client and the server
with the printer must be running lpd. I belive the remote back end is called
/etc/lprbe, you must configure qconfig to call this on the client. Its been
a while, but I know this can be made to work. Good Luck.

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