SUMMARY: lpr on Solaris 2.3

From: David Bailey (david.bailey@aea.orgn.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 18 1994 - 01:42:11 CDT


Original question:

>Has anyone managed to get lpr working for local printers on Solaris 2.3? I am
>using the 4.3BSD-reno system (lpr-sol2.tar.gz from solomon.technet.sg), as
>described in the comp.answers Solaris2 FAQ.
>
>lpd seems to be misreading the printcap file and giving random error messages,
>such as 'unknown printer' and 'bind: Cannot assign requested address', for a
>printcap file that works on Solaris1.

Not much response to this one. I guess nobody else is trying to do it.
Dave Alden <alden@math.ohio-state.edu> pointed me to an updated version of
lpr-sol2 at ftp.nus.sg:/pub/NUS/ISCS/misc/lpr-sol2-p2.tar.gz, but I couldn't
get this to work either. At this point I'm giving up and going back to driving
the printer from a machine running Solaris 1.1.

David

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