> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 10 18:12:01 2002
> Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:11:34 +0800
> From: David Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: LPRng: Direct job sending
>
> Patrick Powell wrote:
>
> >>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jul 10 07:00:22 2002
> >>Subject: LPRng: Direct job sending
> >>From: David Chow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Date: 10 Jul 2002 20:36:39 +0800
> >>
> >>Dear all,
> >>
> >>I am new to LPRng, is there anyway to configure the LPRng client to send
> >>print jobs to remote host's lpd like rlpr does? Since I would like this
> >>to happen on my diskless clients. Thanks.
> >>
> >>regards,
> >>David
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Yes - use the '-Pqueue@host' form of the -P (printer) option which will
> >send directly to the remote system:
> >
> >lpr [EMAIL PROTECTED] /tmp/somefile
> >
> >Patrick Powell
> >
> >Patrick Powell                 Astart Technologies
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]            6741 Convoy Court
> >Network and System             San Diego, CA 92111
> >  Consulting                   858-874-6543 FAX 858-279-8424 
> >LPRng - Print Spooler (http://www.lprng.com)
> >
>
> Thanks, I already know this option,my aim is how can I configure just 
> using printcap to allow directly send the job? If I am using for 
> example, NIS to share the printcap entries, I cannot tell all my usrs to 
> do this on the command line by know where the printer and knowing its 
> network address, right? Is there any environment variables that can be 
> used to control or configuration parameters in printcap to do this to 
> trigger lpr directly to do this?
>
> regards,
> David
>

Oh... sorry...

Try:

  lp:force_localhost@:lp=queue@host:client

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