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From: francis@hslrswi.UUCP (Francis Demierre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt
Subject: Re: Remote printing from an RT...
Keywords: How
Message-ID: <936@hslrswi.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 89 09:14:53 GMT
References: <1672@ucqais.uc.edu>
Reply-To: francis@hslrswi.UUCP (Francis Demierre)
Organization: Hasler AG, CH-3000 Berne 14, Switzerland
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In article <1672@ucqais.uc.edu> rainwatr@ucqais.uc.edu (Donald J. Rainwater) writes:
>Here I go again...
>
>I have an RT running AIX 2.2.1.  It's connected via Ethernet to the campus
>network, and is being domain nameserved by one of our VAX/VMS systems
>
[Some text removed]
>Is there something else I need to do on the RT?  On the VAX?  Also, is there
>a way that I can make the domain nameserving VAX the default destination for
>printing?
>
>Thanks for any help.

You can establish the default printserver in the '/etc/hosts' database with
the 'well known server' entry:

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printserver   xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx       # Internet address of the default server
                                    # you want to use.
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This also works for 'timeserver' and 'nameserver'.


As far as I remember, the print command takes (if no printer argument is given)
the first printer in the '/etc/qconfig' file. This could be another way of 
setting a default.

I'm now at home and not working on our RT, so I will try to answer the rest
on Tuesday when I've access to machine and doc.
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