NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #16/NN_1992_16.iso/spool/comp/sys/sgi/11592

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Path: sparky!uunet!darwin.sura.net!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ubc-cs!newsserver.sfu.ca!langer
From: [e-mail] (Steve Langer)
Subject: lp/lpr printer hacks
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Keywords:  lp lpr
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Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:45:04 GMT
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In <howarth.712364458@proto> [e-mail] (Jack W. Howarth) writes:
|              I am trying to discover if I can start up a lpd daemon to
| print to the same printer that already is being used by lp. The reason is
| that we have lp set up so that NFS can allow us to print remotely to the
| printer through lp from another Iris. However, no PC shareware supports
| lp for printing from a PC to a unix box; only lpr. Thus, I would like to
| have both lp and lpr directed at the same printing but not crashing on me
| if they fight over it. Is this possible or not?

   I've been wondering the same thing, since we'll be wanting to let the
NeXT across the hall talk to the printer connected to an Indigo. I've come
up with the following hack, but I don't know if it will be useful for your
PC connection.
  What I did is to create a dummy user, called "printer", who has /usr/bin/lp
for a shell, and no password. (Please tell me if this is a horrible
security risk!) Then I can print from a remote machine that doesn't have lp
by running
   /usr/bsd/rsh printhost -l printer - < file_to_be_printed
where printhost is the machine with the printer. If you then alias "lpr"
to this command, the users won't ever know the difference, unless of course
they try to use a different printer...

          -- Steve