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From: yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich)
Subject: Re: Remote Printing from HP to BSD systems
Message-ID: <1992Oct7.175217.18806@ll.mit.edu>
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References: <1992Oct1.101600.10026@hp9000.csc.cuhk.hk> <1992Oct06.201338.2138@news.mentorg.com> <1992Oct7.073653.20235@autelca.ascom.ch>
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 92 17:52:17 GMT
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In article <1992Oct7.073653.20235@autelca.ascom.ch> nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt) writes:
>stevej@hpc.mentorg.com (Steve Jumonville) writes:
>
>
>>System V printing is painful to use if you're not familiar with it.
>Yes. I completely agree with this statement.
>
>>I suggest you use the menu driven 'sam' utility (System Admin Manager) to
>>set up printing to BSD. When you're in sam, follow the menu tree down through
>>peripherals, printers and plotters, to "setting up a remote printer". If you
>>have questions, use the "Help" funciton key.
>We solved it in a very simple way:
>	chown lp /usr/bin/lp
>	chmod u+s /usr/bin/lp	(now /usr/bin/lp is running as user "lp" !)
>This is necessary because on every *n*x system around there is an user "lp".
j(At least, on any *n*x system we have here, HP's, SUN's, Interactive UNIX, etc.)
>Now you can write a simple model/interface file which just does a remote shell
>on the other system and that's it.
>Something like
>	cat file | 'rsh BSDhost lp -Pbsd-printer-name'
>
>>By the way, run 'sam' in an 'hpterm' window if you want access to function keys.
>I guess, that you could do it with 'sam' on HP's, we never used it on
>System V.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Norbert.

	How about this. How do you print directly  to a printer
	which is on a terminal server.

	You need ip address and port address on the server.


		????

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