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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers can unix printing directly to ip address Post 57157 by RTM on Wednesday 20th of October 2004 02:10:50 AM
Old 10-20-2004
It's been a long time since I had to set up a printer - last two shops I worked at used Microsoft for printers.

How do you print to the printers from VMS? Are they set up in DNS at all? If I remember, there was a UCX (or UXC?) utility on VMS to work across to UNIX. Let you learn UNIX while on a VMS system. That might help get you up to speed. It may also allow you to print from Solaris to VMS to the printer. Check the documentation (a quick search found this)

But to really answer your question - yes, the IP has to be somewhere - if not in NIS, DNS, NIS+, then the hosts file (althougth I still think UCX has a way of sharing the printers with UNIX boxes - you might only have to set up the printer locally on Solaris to point to your VMS servers).

And it seems since you have something that works....
"If it's not broke, don't fix it!"
 

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lpget(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 lpget(1M)

NAME
lpget - get printing configuration SYNOPSIS
lpget [-k key] [destination... | list] DESCRIPTION
The lpget utility reads printing configuration information from the configuration databases in $HOME/.printers, /etc/printers.conf, print- ers.conf.byname, and printers.org_dir printer. This information, called a configuration report, is displayed to the standard output. See printers(4) and printers.conf(4) for information about the printer configuration databases. lpget displays a configuration report for all keys for the specified destination or destinations by default. Use the -k option to display a configuration report for specific keys. Use the list operand to display a configuration report for all configured destinations. OPTIONS
The following option is supported: -k key Displays a configuration report for key. See printers.conf(4) for information about specifying key. OPERANDS
The following operands are supported: destination Displays a configuration report for destination. Destination can be either a printer of a class of printers. See lpad- min(1M). Specify destination using atomic or POSIX-style (server:destination) names. See printers.conf(4) for information regarding the naming conventions for atomic names and standards(5) for information concerning POSIX. list Displays a configuration report for all configured destinations. EXAMPLES
Example 1: Displaying a Configuration Report for the bsdaddr Key The following example displays a configuration report for the bsdaddr key for printer catalpa. example% lpget -k bsdaddr catalpa Example 2: A Configuration Report for all Keys for all Configured Destinations The following example displays a configuration report for all keys for all configured destinations. example% lpget list EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 Successful completion. non-zero An error occurred. FILES
/etc/printers.conf System printer configuration database. $HOME/.printers User-configurable printer database. printers.conf.byname NIS version of /etc/printers.conf. printers.org_dir NIS+ version of /etc/printers.conf. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWpcu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Stability Level |Stable | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
ldap(1), lp(1), lpc(1B), lpq(1B), lpr(1B), lpstat(1), lpadmin(1M), lpset(1M), printers(4), printers.conf(4), attributes(5), standards(5) System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) NOTES
Be mindful of the following if the LDAP database is used as the name service. If the ldapclient(1M) server is a replica LDAP server, LDAP printer database updates may not appear immediately, as the replica server may not not have been updated by the master server and can be out of sync. For example, a printer that you deleted by using lpset(1M) may still appear in the printer list you display with lpget until the replica is updated from the master. Replica servers vary as to how often they are updated from the master. Refer to the System Adminis- tration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) for more information on LDAP replication. SunOS 5.10 23 May 2003 lpget(1M)
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