Lantronix ETS Reference Manual - 7.2.3   Lpr On Aix Hosts

LPR Printing

TCP/IP Host Setup

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If applicable, choose Shared and select the type of operating system that the printer will be working 

with. (First confirm that the print queue is working.)

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Test the printer by choosing Yes and clicking Finish.

7.2.3   LPR on AIX Hosts

LPR is available on machines running IBM’s AIX operating system versions 3.2 and higher. Print queues 

on AIX hosts can be configured using either UNIX commands or the System Management Interface Tool 

(SMIT) application.

7.2.3.1   Using UNIX Commands

Using LPR on AIX hosts involves a slightly different configuration procedure. The queue configuration file 

is /etc/qconfig and the format of the entry is different, as shown in the example below. Note the lack of 

colons (:) and the required white space.

Figure 7-5:  Example AIX qconfig entry

ETS_PRT:

device = ETS_PRTd

up = TRUE

host = ETS_

xxxxxx

s_statfilter = /usr/lpd/bsdhort

l_statfilter = /usr/lpd/bsdlong

rq = ETS_

xxxxxx

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ETS_PRTd:

backend = /usr/lpd/rembak