Lantronix MPS1-2 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 

conÞgure. 

This section describes how to conÞgure LPR print queues on generic UNIX hosts such as 

SUN hosts. There are slight variations in LPR conÞguration 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 MPS name and IP address to the

/etc/hosts

 Þle:

2.

Add the host print queue to the 

/etc/printcap

 Þle:

The punctuation shown is required, and no extra spaces should be added. 

192.0.1.83 MPS_xxxxxx

mps_prt|Printer on LAB MPS:\

:rm=MPS_xxxxxx:\

:rp=MPS_xxxxxx_TEXT:\

:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/mps_prt: