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6 . 4
V e r if y P r i n t S e r ve r ' s I P A d d r e s s
T o ver i fy th a t you r p rin t ser ver is res pon ding to th e new ly ass ig ned IP
a ddr ess using a PING co mmand :
6.5
Configure Remote lpd Printing on the Host
T he pr oced ure yo u us e to c onfigu re your Un ix hos t(s) to a l low pr in tin g to
yo ur ne tw ork re mo te p rin t se r ver var ies b etwe en d i ffer en t var ie ties o f Un ix.
T he pr oced ure be lo w c an be use d for U nix var ian ts th a t a re rela te d to BSD
U n i x , s uc h a s Su nOS o r L in u x.
s ys te m docu me n ta t ion, k e ep ing in m ind t ha t:
1 . The pr in t s er ver sh ou ld b e tre a ted as a BSD ne tw ork ed pr in t se r ver h os t.
2 .
Th e hos t na me sh ou ld be th e n ame ( or IP ad dress) tha t you have
ass ig ned to the pr in t se r ver .
3 . The prin t er na me ( or qu eue n am e) on th e r e mo te h os t s ho uld be l p t1 , lp t 2
o r l p t3 , the n am e o f the pr in ter po r t on th e p r i n t s er ver .
Yo u w ill nee d to p er for m the tasks be low , lo gge d in as the sup er user (ro o t) .
T o c on f i gure y our U nix h os t for p r i n ti ng ,
1 . Op tion ally, assign a na me co rr espo nd ing to the print se r ver 's IP a ddress .
You can add this address to the /e tc /hos ts file , b y add in g a line suc h as :
2 . C r ea t e a s po ol di r ec t or y for t h e pr in t er in t he s ame d ir ec tor y w h ere s poo l
d ir ec tor ies
ar e
no r m a ll y
/var /s po ol/lp d :
3 . Ad d an e n tr y to the hos t's /et c /pr i n tc ap f i l e , s i m ilar to the fo llowing:
ping ip-address
F o r o t he r ver s io ns o f U n i x , c onsu l t yo ur
203.66.191.186
k e p t
o n
t he
mkdir /var/spool/lpd/pserverd
chown daemon /var/spool/lpd/pserverd
chgrp daemon /var/spool/lpd/pserverd
chmod 775 /var/spool/lpd/pserverd
printer-name:\
pserver
m ac h in e , s uc h
as
/va r /s po ol
o r
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