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kovar@popvax.harvard.edu (David C. Kovar) writes:


>  I'm trying to allow an IBM RT to print a LaserWriter connected to
>a Sun workstation. If I define the Sun as "printserver" in /etc/hosts
>and use lprbe directly the file gets printed. (lprbe -pqueue=ps <file>)

>  However, when I try to do it with a printer queue, the job vanishes
>into thin air. The manual waves its hands and says that lprbe will
>be invoked by the qdaemon but I've never seen this happen. I tried
>running the printer install script in the tcp/ip samples directory and
>it added the following lines:

>rp0:
>	argname = rp0
>	friend = TRUE
>	device = drp0

>drp0:
>	backend = /usr/bin/lprbe

>rp0 shows up in the print -q listing, and jobs are accepted via print -rp0
>but nothing ever appears on the printer, in the queue, or on the Sun.
>I also tried cooking up my own stanzas and failed there, too. Any suggestions
>would be most welcome, including "Go read manual X". (I tried the Managing
>AIX, the TCP/IP manual for AIX, and the commands reference manual. Lots of
>hand waving when it comes to queuing files for remote non-AIX hosts but no
>examples that work.)

Try the following (remember to have the Sun register your machine as
a 'trusted' machine in file /etc/hosts.equiv if you don't define it as
a printserver):

<start abstract from our /etc/qconfig>
*
*	Apple laser printer on dutiaa (printer queue ps)
*
lp2:
	argname = apple
	friend = TRUE
	discipline = sjn
	device = dlp2

dlp2:
	backend = /usr/bin/lprbe -pserver=dutiaa -pqueue=ps -naix

*
*	DVI format
*
lp3:
	argname = appledvi
	friend = TRUE
	discipline = sjn
	device = dlp3

dlp3:
	backend = /usr/bin/lprbe -pserver=dutiaa -pqueue=ps -naix -filter=-d
<end abstract from our /etc/qconfig>

>Thanks, in advance.
Your welcome.

Say, you wouldn't have a GNU C installation on your system, would you :-)?


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In article <1283@husc6.harvard.edu> kovar@popvax.harvard.edu (David C. Kovar) writes:
>
>rp0:
>	argname = rp0
>	friend = TRUE
>	device = drp0
>
>drp0:
>	backend = /usr/bin/lprbe
>

Try the following:
	backend = /usr/bin/lprbe -pserver=<nodename> -statusfile

There is also a pqueue= argument if you want to send it to a specific
print queue on the pserver rather than the default one.
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From article <1283@husc6.harvard.edu>, by kovar@popvax.harvard.edu (David C. Kovar):
>   However, when I try to do it with a printer queue, the job vanishes
> into thin air. The manual waves its hands and says that lprbe will
> be invoked by the qdaemon but I've never seen this happen. I tried

You seem to have a bunch of strangenesses in there.  Here's one that works
for me:

rjt:
   argname = -rjt
   device = rjtdev

rjtdev:
   header = never
   trailer = never
   feed = never
   backend = /usr/bin/lprbe -pserver=labauto -pqueue=lpt1

Note that the argname has to have "-rjt" not just "rjt".  Otherwise you
have to say "print rjt" instead of "print -rjt".  Don't forget to su and
do a "print -rr" to activate the qconfig changes.

The machine that I'm remote printing on is called "labauto" and until 
yesterday it had an HP LaserJet on it.  Today it has an IBM 4216-031 
postscript printer.  Both work quite well with EROFF (Elan computer 
products).
-- 
Ed Clarke
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