Lantronix EPS2-100 Installation Manual - 4.4 Lpr On Unix Hosts
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4.4 LPR on UNIX Hosts
The Berkeley remote printing system is supported on many machines, and is simple to configure.
This section describes how to configure LPR print queues on generic UNIX hosts such as SUN
hosts. There are slight variations in LPR configuration for AIX, HP, and SCO hosts, as will be
explained in the following sections.
1.
Install a print queue on your host by adding the EPS name and IP address to the
/etc/hosts file:
2.
Add the host print queue to the /etc/printcap file:
The punctuation shown is required, and no extra spaces should be added.
192.0.1.88 EPS_xxxxxx
eps_prt|Printer on LAB EPS:\
:rm=EPS_xxxxxx:\
:rp=EPS_xxxxxx_TEXT:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/eps_prt: