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From: shankar@hpclscu.HP.COM (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Spooling
Message-ID: <1340051@hpclscu.HP.COM>
Date: 7 Apr 89 01:57:59 GMT
References: <2753@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Calif. Language Lab
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> both a 4-port rs-232 mux card and a high speed disk interface (either HP-IB 
> or SCSI) in the 340.  I would like to put the mux card on the workstation I 
> plan on  using as a diskless node, but then I run into the problem with 
> spooled periphs off a diskless node.

Spooled peripherals on a diskless node are not officially supported, but
it's not impossible to do this. To achieve this, try doing the following
(strictly unsupported, caveat emptor):

Turn the following files/directories into CDF's:

   /usr/spool/lp/
                 FIFO
		 SCHEDLOCK
		 pstatus
		 qstatus
		 outputq
		 request     /* this is a directory - see below */
		 default     /* if you want different default printers */

If you make "request" a CDF, it will create the directories under request
in only the rootserver's context. You must manually copy the contents to
the other contexts.

If you want a local printer for each cnode, try the following in addition:

make /usr/spool/lp/interface/lp (or whatever you want to call it) a CDF.
Then on each client, set up "lp" as desired (most diskless workstations
have an RS232 port or an HP-IB port, so you can set up the local printer
appropriately.) 
----
Shankar.