What are the basic steps to installing an Epson 850 dot matrix printer on a Sun Ultra 5 Solaris 2.6. I am a neophyte re: Unix. I really would like to print over the network thru an NT 4.0 machine. Epson is setup to print from NT 4.0 very well (it appears). I would connect the 850 directly to the Ultra 5 if I have to. Thanks!
To use the NT print queue:
man lpadmin:
-s system-name[!printer-name]
Make a remote printer (one that must be accessed through another system) accessible to users on your system. system-name is the name of the remote system on which the remote printer is located it. printer-name is the name used on the remote systemfor that printer. For example, if you want to access printer1 on system1 and you want it called printer2 on your system:
lpadmin -p printer2 -s system1!printer1
Note, NT must be set up to support lpd and the printer name (under NT) can't contain spaces.
3.12) How can I print to a networked printer?
Before Solaris 2.6, you either needed special software like JetAdmin or get a printer that supported the BSD print protocol and set your system up as a BSD client.
Starting with Solaris 2.6, there's a new lp "model" script, "netstandard". This script allows you to print to remote BSD type printers as well as over raw TCP/IP connections. It's used like this:
When using netstandard, all filtering is done locally. When configured as a BSD print client, filtering isn't done locally as only print servers should filter jobs.
Hope this helps, Tim
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