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