ok.. i was trying to connect to the machine over telnet and it wouldn't run the curses interface it wanted to run the X interface. getting on the actual box allowed me access to the curses scoadmin. just now the regular admins of that box showed up and and are going mess around with it. i...
i already said its a headless server and all the other servers were installed headless (no x) .. does scoadmin have a curses interface or something? I thought it was X only.
I'm printing to the Gestetner (Ricoh) (we're in the same building, I'm on the same network) using Fedora Core 3 with the PCL 5e driver via Jet Direct. Its possible, the question is how to get it setup on SCO OS 5.0.6
jack squat :)
# cat /etc/printcap
# Remote Line Printer (BSD format)
one commented line.. thats it.. all other printers work just fine. let me state again that i didn't setup this machine its a legacy system. infact I don't even work for the company that owns it, I work for their sister...
its kinda strange.. we've got a few printers defined on this machine already. here is the lpstat -t output.
# lpstat -t
scheduler is running
system default destination: hplaserjet
device for gestbw: /dev/null
device for hplaserjet: /dev/null
device for INVOICE: /dev/null
device for STD...
It looks to me like the previous printers were installed without using scoadmin and I'm curious how to go about doing this for a new printer on SCO OS5.0.6 Its a remote printing queue and I thought there was a simple way to specify the device/logical name and hostname of the printer and be done...
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