Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!dftsrv!hq!mitch From: mitch@hq.af.mil (Mitchell..Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Remote printing -- BSD to SYSV Message-ID: Date: 7 Dec 89 15:28:05 GMT References: <34941@cornell.UUCP> Sender: mitch@hq.af.mil Organization: Air Force HQ, The Pentagon Lines: 34 In-reply-to: kowalski@svax.cs.cornell.edu's message of 7 Dec 89 04:18:36 GMT kowalski@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Jeffrey Kowalski) writes: >Is is possible to remote print to a SYSV printer from a BSD printer? > [ ... ] >]connection to butternut is down >] >]acacia: waiting for butternut to come up >]Rank Owner Job Files Total Size >]1st jeff 0 junk.txt 5511 bytes > >So, there you have it. What gives? > The problem is that the System V machine does not have lpd running. It probably doesn't have it at all. To allow such remote printing, there are a few things that you can do... 1) Write a simple version of lpd for the System V machine. 2) Port an lp[dr] to your SV machine. PLP is in the Public Domain. 3) utilize the filters in printcap to execute a script that would rsh lp in one form or another. This method works fine as a quick hack, but I do not recommend it to be used in a production environment. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Mitch Wright Currently under contract to: I-NET, Inc. USAF 7th CG, The Pentagon ARPA: mitch@hq.af.mil gretzky@unison.larc.nasa.gov UUCP: uunet!hq.af.mil!mitch AT&T: (202) 696-6070 (202) 696-6030 (FAX) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-