My original query was
> How do I specify a particular remote printer on a BSD server under Solaris ?
>
> My apologies if this is trivial, but there's no information about this in the
> admintool help or in the lpsystem man page. i.e. if a BSD machine called
> sunos has two printers called printer1 and printer2, how do I configure a
> Solaris machine to have access to printer1 and printer2. I am running Solaris
> 2.3, so my apologies if this solved in 2.4, but I cannot see where I can
> specify the printer on the remote host. I am basically looking for the analog
> to the rp field in /etc/printcap.
A few people replied and suggested simply Admintool or RTFM on Admintool. To
these I would simply say, RTFQ guys. It is obvious from the question that I
had tried both admintool and lpadmin and that the relevant documentation was
of no assistance. Anyway, to cut a long story short, the way to specify a
particular remote queue name is to use system-name!queue-name as the system
name argument to lpadmin, remembering to escape the ! if necessary. You can't
use the system-name!queue-name method in admintool - that will just cause the
creation of a new system known as system-name!queue-name in the lpsystem's
database.
Thanks to all the following for their replies :
Chris Phillips <chris@platform.com>
Andy_Feldt@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu (Andy Feldt)
<DonWilliams@research.natpower.co.uk>
"Bert N. Shure" <bert@solsource.com>
schneide@scubed.com (Steve Schneider)
Roger Salisbury <rogers@ttmc.com>
Justin Young <justiny@cluster.engr.subr.edu>
sdr@rdga3.att.com (S. D. Raffensberger 500622500 (RD))
Original-rdga3!sdr (S. D. Raffensberger 500622500 (RD))
lopez@abqato.scs.philips.com (Robert Lopez x7112)
Jan Barte <yann@mathematik.uni-paderborn.de>
Glenn.Satchell@Uniq.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq Professional Services)
Trevor McFarland <JTM1@nrc.gov>
blymn@awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
peter@jrc.nl (Peter Watkins)
Bill Reed <reedwv@expu79.stp.xfi.bp.com>
tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans)
Colin Johnson <cj@mssls3.mssl.ucl.ac.uk>
charest@sar3.CANR.Hydro.Qc.CA (Claude Charest)
"Jarod Jenson" <jarodj@bcm.tmc.edu>
brb@ike.safb.af.mil (Bruce R Baier)
"J. Davis" <jd@lri.stjosephs.london.on.ca>
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
European Space Operations Centre nobroin@esoc.esa.de
Darmstadt, Germany Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179
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