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- From: cohen@lindsay.psychiatry.uiowa.edu
- Subject: Re: can lpr and lp share a printer?
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.140004.16899@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 14:00:04 GMT
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- In article <ntpvcrs@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- writes:
- >In <1992Jul29.114520.1517@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> senseman@ricky.brainlab.utsa.edu
- (David M. Senseman) writes:
- >
- >| In article <howarth.712364458@proto> howarth@rice.edu (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.
- >|
- >| I have a related question. I downloaded pcnfsd from sgi.com because
- >| I thought is was compiled to work with "lp" and not "lpr". Is this
- >| true? When I try to use my SOSS "lpr" command from a DOS Machine,
- >| it tells me that these no "lpd" printer attached (which is true) on the
- >| host machine, but there is an "lp" printer attached.
- >
- >My guess is that pcnfsd is still looking for lpd style printers; I
- >don't think we changed that. Furthermore, we don't officially
- >support running lpd on our systems, just using lpr for printing
- >jobs on some other remote system that supports lpd. It does work,
- >but doesn't work with any of our normal printer tools, programs, etc.
- >--
- >Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
- >because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
- > Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
- >
-
- My understanding is that PCNFSd looks only for lp printers. You have
- to have a script (set of scripts?) that will take the lp call and make it
- go to the lpr printers that you have defined. This is supposedly simple,
- however, I haven't been able to make it work. The original 'standard' for
- pcnfsd calls for ATT lp calls.
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