passing lp options from clients to printserver

2007-12-25 9:48:00

Thanks to Casper Dik & Bismark Espinoza to answer my question (if I miss someone,

Please accept my apology).

Here is the original answer:

>I have a Solaris 2.6 system used as printer server and used the Jetadmin

>(installed in the printer server) to do the configuration for HP printers.

>>From this printer server, I can use command:

> lp -d<printername> -olandscape <file>

>to do landscape mode for printing but not on the clients. The clients are

>Solaris 2.5.5 systems which I used admintool instead of Jetadmin to configire

>the printer.

>I checked the past Summary from someone, and the answer was as following:

>>As long as BSD is used as the transport mechanism, on the clients, you

>>can replace the eight field in the /etc/lp/Systems file with

>>'SVR4-Extensions'.

>> printhost:x:-:bsd:-:n:10:SVR4-Extensions:-:

>The above solution doesn't work for me. Please help. Thanks.

For Solaris 2.5.1 system:

I need to get the lastest patch of 103959 which is -06 (lower version may work,

but for sure not -03 because I have this version before I applied -06 in order to

make it work). Then I need to vi the file /etc/lp/Systems:

<printserver>:x:-:bsd:-:n:10:SVR4-Extensions:-:

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take out the "-" and put the above

For Solaris 2.6 system:

I need to vi the file /etc/printers.conf:

<printername>:\

:bsdaddr=<printserver>,<printername>,Solaris:

--------

add the above

Rgds,

Lincoln Chang

System Administrator

Philips Semiconductors

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