Nibal Al-Ghoul wrote:
> Dear Norm
>
> Thanks a lot but I cant find following file to edit as per the link that you
> send http://opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/faq/sol2lin.html
> File is:
>
It appears to be a typo. It should read /etc/inetd.conf
> /etc/inted.conf
> Linux version is Ubuntu 9.10
> The error that I'm getting from Solaris
> (printer Name): service-unavailable
>
>
> root at prod # lp -d LQ-680 nnn.txt
> LQ-680: service-unavailable
> root at prod #
>
This makes sense if the network listener isn't enabled on the remote
print server. That's why the change needs to be made to /etc/inetd.conf
on the linux print server.
-Norm
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> Thanks & Best Regards
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norm Jacobs [mailto:Norm.Jacobs at Sun.COM]
> Sent: 13/10/2009 19:07
> To: Nibal
> Cc: opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org; printing-discuss at
> opensolaris.org
> Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] enable LPR on Linux users let them use Unix
> printers
>
>
> I'm including printing-discuss since it's probably a better forum for this.
>
> The Window printing model differs from Solaris in that a Windows print
> server pretty much expects that the client systems will supply printer
> ready output, so depending on your needs, you might consider creating a
> local queue on the Solaris box and treating the Windows hosted printer
> as though it were a "network attached printer". If you have several
> Solaris clients, you can point them at a single Solaris system that
> queues their jobs and forwards them to the Windows print server. You
> can do something similar on Linux. Presumably the Linux system will be
> using CUPS and network attached printers and remote print queues are
> configured the same way under CUPS. Under CUPS, you create a local
> queue for it with a device-uri that is something like
> lpr://server/queue, ipp://server/printers/queue, socket://printer:9100, ...
>
> The Solaris GUI tools (/usr/sbin/printmgr) should make it easier to
> create the queue under LP
> The CUPS web interface, system-config-printer, or distro supplied tool
> should make it easer under CUPS.
> If you use OpenSolaris, you can use either LP or CUPS.
>
> You might also look at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/printing/faq/
> for some hints.
>
> -Norm
>
>
> Nibal wrote:
>
>>> Dear All,
>>> I have sun Solaris 10 server adding all shared
>>> printers as LPR on windows client as following
>>> command
>>> #lpadmin -p (printer-name) -s (ip for Windows PC that
>>> attached printer)
>>> Then all Solaris users can print through the server
>>> and they can use following command to print ( for
>>> example)
>>> $ lp -d (printer-name) (file-name to print it)
>>> my question is how I can enable LPR on Linux users
>>> because I have also Linux users to let them print
>>> though the Solaris servers
>>> For windows I can install lpr for Unix printer
>>> service, and what about Linux how can I run this
>>> service
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks & Best Regards,
>>>
>>>
>
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