Adding printers on Solaris
Akim Demaille
Hi!
I would like to know if somebody knows a way to add a printer to lp on
Solaris 2.5. Yet I know there are files to change in
/etc/lp/printers, but this is not enough to have the printer added.
So I have to run that painful admintool.
What is the missing step? Are there batch alternatives? (The intend
is, of course, to add in a single stroke a printer onto several
machines).
Thanks!
Akim
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Jeffrey Boulier
Akim Demaille <dema...@inf.enst.fr> wrote:
>
>Hi!
>
>I would like to know if somebody knows a way to add a printer to lp on
>What is the missing step? Are there batch alternatives? [...]
Mr. Demaille,
'man lpadmin' should give you the information you need.
--Jeffrey Boulier
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Mike Nowak
(Jeffrey Boulier) wrote:
> 'man lpadmin' should give you the information you need.
>
> --Jeffrey Boulier
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>George Washington University / SCT Inc.
Jeffrey, I'm trying to use lpadmin to set up a networked HP 8000. The man
pages seem to refer to using a directly connected printer, but not a
networked printer. Any advice?
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and "laser" the spool name:
lpadmin -x laser
lpsystem -t bsd LASER
lpadmin -p laser -s LASER -I any
accept laser
enable laser
lpstat -t -l
man lpadmin/lpsystem/accept/enable/lpstat
to ubderstand what you do
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chris
>
> In article <72tf7q$d...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> , jeff...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
> (Jeffrey Boulier) wrote:
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> > 'man lpadmin' should give you the information you need.
> >
> > --Jeffrey Boulier
> >
> >--
> >Sr. Systems Programmer
> >George Washington University / SCT Inc.
>
> Jeffrey, I'm trying to use lpadmin to set up a networked HP 8000. The man
> pages seem to refer to using a directly connected printer, but not a
> networked printer. Any advice?
>
>
If you have a jet direct card you can get the jetdirect software from hp
website. The software makes it real easy.
chris
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"Mike Nowak" <mno...@umich.edu> asked about HP network printer setup.
http://www.hp.com/cposupport/prodhome/hpjetadmin4304.html will get you the
JetAdmin software.
It's very straightforward. I have used it for HP4000N printers.
tony
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Jeffrey Boulier
Mike Nowak <mno...@umich.edu> wrote:
>In article <72tf7q$d...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu> , jeff...@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
>(Jeffrey Boulier) wrote:
>
>Jeffrey, I'm trying to use lpadmin to set up a networked HP 8000. The man
>pages seem to refer to using a directly connected printer, but not a
>networked printer. Any advice?
>
Well, Sun's advice is evidently "Don't use lpadmin, use jetadmin".
You can pick it up from http://www.hp.com, or directly from
ftp.hp.com/pub/software/SOL515d.PKG [I think].
Do a pkgadd, and you're all set to run jetadmin. HOWEVER!!!! the install
changes your /etc directory to be group writable. This is a problem if you
are running a copy of Sendmail from sendmail.org, and you haven't set
confDONTBLAMESENDMAIL or some such in your configuration file. Sendmail
will bomb with some useless error message. Just reset your permissions on
/etc to rwxr-xr-x and you're fine. I haven't been able to figure out why
jetadmin wants to change the permissions in the first place...
There's also a web-based version of jetadmin that HP is really trying hard
to push. They claim that updates, added drivers, and suchlike will be more
likely to show up there first. I haven't tried it out because I am a
terminal-based person.
Hope this helps!
Sincerely Yours,
Jeffrey Boulier
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> I haven't been able to figure out why
> jetadmin wants to change the permissions in the first place...
Its the package format. It stores the attributes of the directories
(and parent directories). It'll reset the attributes back to what they
were when the package was created. I see this from time to time on
Sun's packages/patches as well.
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