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Terminal Server - User and Administration Guide
LPD Printing from
BSD Unix
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Under Windows
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the printer will be available from within other
applications via the File option of the Windows
The actual printer will be referenced by the Name of the
terminal server serial port or, by the terminal server and port
number in the same way that Unix uses the Name.
The server IP address should be included in the Host table
before trying to setup the actual printer port.
This section should give you some idea of how to set-up
printing via LPD on a Unix host. However, this will not be
universally true as different versions of Unix have different
configuration requirements. You may also wish to consult
your Operating System documentation before attempting to
add LPD.
The Unix host should have a printer database, for BSD and
Linux type systems this will be the file /etc/printcap and there
should be an entry within this file for the server's LPD port
that looks something like the following:
#term_serv LPD Printer on serial port 16
Laser1|TSERVER LPD printer 16:\
:rp=LPD_printer:rm=term_serv:lp=:sf:\
:sd=/usr/spool/LPD/LPD_printer:\
:lf=/usr/spool/LPD/term_serv16/log:
Printing could then be accomplished using the following
command:
lpr –PLaser1 <file>
A limitation of printing with LPD on the terminal server is
that no formatting of text (apart from the + operation) can be
carried out by the terminal server firmware. This is due to
the lack of a spooler utility in the terminal server and the data
being forwarded directly to the serial port.
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