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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers TCP(?) Printing from Unix Post 302213540 by Bortiquai on Thursday 10th of July 2008 10:41:43 AM
Old 07-10-2008
The version of Linux is SCO 5.7.

I worked with the "unix guy" to try to get this going. Sitting at the Unix box, the typed "telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 9100" where xxx... is the public IP where the printer is located. He then would type letters and when he hit enter, it would print out on the printer.

However, he was unable to get any of the print jobs in the unix queue to print. There were about 20 or so print jobs in the queue, some very old and some a few days old. I asked him if he could delete the old print jobs. He deleted a couple of them, but still nothing on the printer.

He did the lpstat -t and pointed the the printer and said "there it is". He then re-assured me that unix cannot print in this way because we are using port forwarding on the remote site. He even called his buddy who said nope, can't be done.

I'm still not convinced, and think the printer may not be setup correctly. I asked him about CUPS and he said he's never used it, and doesn't really know too much about it. He said the only way I am going to be able to print to the printer in the remote site is to establish a site to site VPN, which would require purchsing new equipment capable of this.

So, here are my questions:
1) Can SCO Unix 5.7 print to a remote printer in this way?
2) I have TCP ports 9100 and 515 forwared to the Jet Direct printer server at the remote location. Are there others I need?
3) Can someone tell me how, or where to find out how to setup/configure a printer on SCO Unix 5.7? Do i NEED additional software (CUPS, other, ...) or can it be done with what i've got?

Thanks to all who chimed in.
Last edited by Bortiquai; 07-10-2008 at 01:28 PM..
 

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lpstat

lpstat(1)							    Apple Inc.								 lpstat(1)

NAME

       lpstat - print cups status information

SYNOPSIS

       lpstat  [ -E ] [ -H ] [ -U username ] [ -h hostname[:port] ] [ -l ] [ -W which-jobs ] [ -a [ destination(s) ] ] [ -c [ class(es) ] ] [ -d ]
       [ -o [ destination(s) ] ] [ -p [ printer(s) ] ] [ -r ] [ -R ] [ -s ] [ -t ] [ -u [ user(s) ] ] [ -v [ printer(s) ] ]

DESCRIPTION

       lpstat displays status information about the current classes, jobs, and printers. When run with no arguments, lpstat will list jobs  queued
       by the current user.

OPTIONS

       The lpstat command supports the following options:

       -E
	    Forces encryption when connecting to the server.

       -H
	    Shows the server hostname and port.

       -R
	    Shows the ranking of print jobs.

       -U username
	    Specifies an alternate username.

       -W which-jobs
	    Specifies  which  jobs  to	show,  completed  or  not-completed (the default). This option must appear before the -o option and/or any
	    printer names, otherwise the default (not-completed) value will be used in the request to the scheduler.

       -a [printer(s)]
	    Shows the accepting state of printer queues. If no printers are specified then all printers are listed.

       -c [class(es)]
	    Shows the printer classes and the printers that belong to them.  If no classes are specified then all classes are listed.

       -d
	    Shows the current default destination.

       -h server[:port]
	    Specifies an alternate server.

       -l
	    Shows a long listing of printers, classes, or jobs.

       -o [destination(s)]
	    Shows the jobs queue on the specified destinations. If no destinations are specified all jobs are shown.

       -p [printer(s)]
	    Shows the printers and whether or not they are enabled for printing. If no printers are specified then all printers are listed.

       -r
	    Shows whether the CUPS server is running.

       -s
	    Shows a status summary, including the default destination, a list of classes and their member printers, and a  list  of  printers  and
	    their associated devices. This is equivalent to using the "-d", "-c", and "-v" options.

       -t
	    Shows all status information. This is equivalent to using the "-r", "-d", "-c", "-v", "-a", "-p", and "-o" options.

       -u [user(s)]
	    Shows a list of print jobs queued by the specified users. If no users are specified, lists the jobs queued by the current user.

       -v [printer(s)]
	    Shows the printers and what device they are attached to. If no printers are specified then all printers are listed.

COMPATIBILITY

       Unlike  the  System V printing system, CUPS allows printer names to contain any printable character except SPACE, TAB, "/", and "#".  Also,
       printer and class names are not case-sensitive.

       The "-h", "-E", "-U", and "-W" options are unique to CUPS.

       The Solaris "-f", "-P", and "-S" options are silently ignored.

SEE ALSO

       cancel(1), lp(1),
       http://localhost:631/help

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