Config Network printer 1

[josel]

Howdy!

I have copier machine (Xerox) with NIC card connected to network. IP is 192.168.0.201. I set entry in /etc/hosts
like so

192.168.0.201 xerox

I also set entry in /etc/printcap like so

xerox:\
:lp=:rm=xerox:rp=raw1:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/xerox

I created directory as pointed to by sd - When I try sending a print to using `cat /etc/passwd |lp -dxerox` I get an error

UX:lp: ERROR: Destination "xerox" is unknown to the
LP print service.

What am I missing? What else must I do?

Thank you all in advance!


Jose Lerebours





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[PHV]

HAve you tried rlpconf ?

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[stanhubble]

did you stop and restart the lpd service?

 

[motoslide]

If this is the first printer defined using "lpd", you must run the "mkdev rlp" command. This puts different versions of the LP commands into place. After that has been done once, then rlpconf should be used for subsequent entries.
On very early flavors of SCO, if you ran "mkdev rlp" more than once, it really messed up the spooler system. But, that's been fixed for the last several releases.

 

[itfellow]

Go to /var/spool/lp/admins/lp/printers/<name of your printer>/ and make sure there are these files in that directory:

alert.sh
alert.vars
configuration

If you use rlpconf, these should be created for you, but you can do them manually too.