How do set up the printer for Solaris 8 server?

[BMW]

All,

New in the Solaris business :-(!

I have a network printer which support postscript. How do I set my Solaris 8 server to print out from that printer? Is there any protocol I can follow?

Thanks,

BMW

 

[Annihilannic]

Add your printername to /etc/hosts and try something like:

[tt]lpadmin -p queuename -o protocol=bsd,dest=printername -v /dev/null -T ps
accept queuename
enable queuename[/tt] Annihilannic.

 

[dandan123]

Does this mean you do not need any print server software to print to a network printer ?

 

[KenCunningham]

As long as you're not trying to do anything too fancy, yes.

 

[Annihilannic]

It depends on the printer, some support BSD printing properly, some don't... and I imagine on some of them the feature may have to be turned on somehow.

If you telnet printerhostname 515 and it accepts the connection chances are that it will work.

Annihilannic.