Hendrik Boom <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> writes: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:11:51PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote: > >> >> Send_job is the name of the lprng function for sending a job to a remote >> print server. If you specifiy >> >> 515@172.25.1.122 >> >> as printer, it will try to connect to port 515 on 172.25.1.122 (default >> port) and then try to spool the job to printer 515, cf >> >> ,---- >> | The rm (remote machine or host) and rp or lp printer printcap options >> | are used to specify the remote host and printer to be used. These values >> | can be extracted from a printcap entry, or supplied in the following >> | manner.
[...] >> `---- >> http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~tony/LPRng/LPRng-HOWTO-5.html#rp > > Now that's useful documentation. Thank you. I wish I had found it > earlier. So the lp should be > > something@172.25.1.122 > > or equivalently, > > something@172.25.1.122:515 > > and I'll have to find the printer documentation to find out how it > refers to itself; that will be what I specify as 'something'. You could try something like lpc -S172.25.1.122 status or lpq -Pall@172.25.1.122 to get a list of 'all printers and queues'. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
