Define Remote Printer

[TSch]

Hi folks,

could you help me out with the following Problem:

There's a department within our Company that's using mobile Linux terminals that have a kind of printer attached to.

Now our AIX server is supposed to send print jobs to those printers.

I checked the /etc/qconfig and it looks like this:

pr001:
        device = @BC001
        host = BC001
        rq = pr1
        s_statfilter = /usr/lib/lpd/bsdshort
        l_statfilter = /usr/lib/lpd/bsdlong
@BC001:
        header = never
        trailer = never
        access = both
        backend = /usr/lib/lpd/pio/etc/piorlfb -f !

Problem is, that I need to configure an additional printer on the AIX server and I have no idea how ...

I tried just copying the entry from above and just change the device, host, rq, etc. settings to the new printer but it won't work ...

I even tried the mkvirprt command but I failed to figure out which parameter belongs to which entry mentioned in the /etc/qconfig.

Any suggestions ?

Regards,
Thomas

 

[blarneyme]

You don't mention if it is a serial or parallel printer so I'll go with a serial:

mkdev -c printer  -t 'osp' -s 'rs232' -p 'sa0' -w '9100'

 

[blarneyme]

Or

smitty printer

And follow the menus.