UNIX Configuration
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❖ Registering the printer
The installation shell script registers the printer as a remote printer.
A
If your workstation is Solaris 2.5.1, register the print server and print client
to the print service.
# lpsystem -t bsd -R 0 -y ″
″″
″Network Printer″
″″
″ nphost
B
Register the printer as a remote printer.
# lpadmin -p np -s nphost!option -T dump -I any
• np is the printer name, nphost is the host name. options is “lp” or
“text”. For printing with PCL or PostScript, enter “lp”. For text printing,
enter “text”.
C
If your workstation is Solaris 2.5.1, set the print job enable to be accepted
by print queue.
/usr/lib/accept np
D
If your workstation is Solaris 2.5.1, set the print job enable to print.
/usr/lib/enable np
HP-UX
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❖ Adding the IP address and host name to the /etc/hosts file
The following line is added to the /etc/hosts file.
192.168.15.16 np # Network Printer
• 192.168.15.16 is the IP address, np is the host name, from # to the end of the
line is a comment.
Note
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The /etc/hosts file contains a list of the IP addresses and their host names
of all of the hosts communicating on the network. Each entry is delimited
with a space or a tab, and each line is separated with a return.
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If you do not use NIS or DNS, you must manually enter the IP address and host
name of each workstation using the network printer in the /etc/hosts file.
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❖ Registering the printer
The installation shell script registers the printer as a remote printer following
the procedure below.
A
Stop the scheduler.
/usr/lib/lpshut
B
Register the printer.
/usr/lib/lpadmin -Pnp -v/dev/null -mrmodel
-ormnphost -orpoption -ob3
• np is the printer name, nphost is the host name. options is “lp” or
“text”. For printing with PCL or PostScript, enter “lp”. For text printing,
enter “text”.
