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From: b.vanvalkenburg@odyssey.on.ca (b.vanvalkenburg)
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Subject: Re: [Q]Need method to connect a remote printer with lptd
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 02:03:02 GMT
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Here you go

Good luck
Brian V      

 Creating a TCP/IP (lpr) Print Queue
	ensure that lpd services are enable in ucxconfig
 ·	ensure that the printer network interface has been assigned a TCP/IP
address
·	add the printer queue name to the ucx host list
 $ ucx set host hp_2_lpr /address=164.178.49.239/alias=“hp_2_lpr”
 ·	check the printer network interface manual to find the rp setting
·	from vms $ run sys$system:ucx$lprsetup.exe answer the questions as
follows
Command  < add delete view help exit >: a
Adding printer entry, type '?' for help.
Enter printer name to add : hp_2_lpr			queue name
Enter the FULL name of one of the following printer types:
remote local : remote
Enter printer synonym: hp_2_lpr				queue name
Enter printer synonym:
Enter full file specification for spool directory
SPOOLER DIRECTORY 'sd' :  [SYS$SPECIFIC:[UCX_LPD.HP_2_LPR]] ?
Set LPD PrintServer extensions flag 'ps' [] ? lps		for a postscript printer
Set remote system name 'rm' [] ?  hp_2_lpr		queue name
Set remote system printer name 'rp' [] ?  PASSTHRU	check network card
manual
Set printer error log file 'lf' [SYS$SPECIFIC:[UCX_LPD]HP_2_LPR.LOG] ?
Enter the name of the printcap symbol you wish to modify.  Other
valid entry is : -----removed----
Enter symbol name: q
Are these the final values for printer HP_2_LPR ? [y]
Adding comments to printcap file for new printer, type '?' for help.
Do you want to add comments to the printcap file [n] ? :
Do you want the queue to default to print flag pages [y] : n
Do you want this procedure to start the queue [n] : y
Creating execution queue: HP_2_LPR

"Alfred C. Lee" <alfred@samsung.co.kr> wrote:

> I am using OpenVMS AXP 6.1 in DEC alpha machine with DEC tcp/ip services
>for OpenVMS version 3.1.
>There is not a local printer in the DEC workstation but there is a remote
>printer with lptd named ps5(ip=203.254.244.135) in the network.
>May I have the method to use the remote printer like unix machine.



>--
>Alfred C. Lee
>alfred@samsung.co.kr
>Samsung Engineering
>Seoul Korea
>(Tel) 0331-263-2559
> (Fax) 0331-263-2561