Hi, I posted this question here instead of presto. I think this is more generic. I have in my $HOME/.printers, the following lines
_all pdub0407dbl,pdub0407 pdub0407dbl dbl-nw.Ireland:pdub0407dbl pdub0407 dbl-nw.Ireland:pdub0407 if I have disabled 16:50:08 svc:/application/print/server:default lpstat -p gives me nothing. If I have, online 16:51:16 svc:/application/print/server:default lpstat -p gives me printer pdub0407dbl idle. enabled since Thu May 03 16:51:24 2007. available. printer pdub0407 idle. enabled since Thu May 03 16:51:24 2007. available. My /etc/printers.conf is empty. and # grep printers /etc/nsswitch.conf printers: user files That's means I can't see the print queue on the remote server, dbl-nw.ireland even though I have defined a alias in $HOME/.printers. In our previous discussion, the smf service svc:/application/print/server:default is suppose to be disabled by default which effectively stop a user to access to printers on remote servers unless the sys admin turn on this service. I think this behaviour is expected, can you shed some light on this? For example, evince would not see any of remote print queue until I started adding a local queue which does make lpsched to run and the remote queue is then available by accident. -Ghee This message posted from opensolaris.org
