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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users How to fire a print job on a printer at DHCP network?? Post 71904 by pankajgupta on Tuesday 17th of May 2005 02:33:57 AM
Old 05-17-2005
Question How to fire a print job on a printer at DHCP network??
Hi All,
I have an issue related to printing on a printer at DHCP network.

We have n numbers of printers which can be attached to n numbers of telnet clients of a server. Telnet sessions can be obtained from any machine and any available printer will be attached to that machine. Our aim is to get a printout from the same machine (telnet client) from which it was fired to the UNIX server. Now as soon as the printer is attached to the dummy machine (telnet client), an IP is assigned to it by the DHCP network. Since this IP is dynamic in nature, we are unable to fire a print to that particular printer.
lpd command doesn't work as IP is dynamic in nature. It asks for the queue name which can not be prepared at run time(its the task of system administrator to configure queues) even if we know the printer's run time IP address.

Please tell me if there is any way to solve this issue. I heard that by directly writing to the printer port I could resolve the printer queue issue but I am not sure how to send text files directly to a printer port. I can send data in a form of strings but not as a text file.

Thanks a lot in advance.
 

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enable

enable(1)                                                          User Commands                                                         enable(1)

NAME

       enable, disable - enable/disable LP printers

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/enable printer...

       /usr/bin/disable [-c | -W]  [ -r [reason]] printer...

DESCRIPTION

       The  enable  command  activates  printers,  enabling  them to print requests submitted by the lp command. enable must be run on the printer
       server.

       The disable command deactivates printers, disabling them from printing requests submitted by the lp command. By default, any requests  that
       are  currently  printing  on printer will be reprinted in their entirety either on printer or another member of the same class of printers.
       The disable command must be run on the print server.

       Use lpstat -p to check the status of printers.

       enable and disable only effect queueing on the print server's spooling system. Executing these commands from a client system will  have  no
       effect on the server.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported for use with disable:

       -c              Cancels  any requests that are currently printing on printer. This option cannot be used with the -W option. If the printer
                       is remote, the -c option will be silently ignored.

       -W              Waits until the request currently being printed is finished before disabling printer. This option cannot be used  with  the
                       -c option. If the printer is remote, the -W option will be silently ignored.

       -r [reason]     Assigns  a  reason  for  the  disabling  of  the  printer(s). This reason applies to all printers specified. This reason is
                       reported by lpstat -p. Enclose reason in quotes if it contains blanks. The default  reason  is  "unknown  reason"  for  the
                       existing printer, and "new printer" for a printer added to the system but not yet enabled.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported for both enable and disable:

       printer         The  name of the printer to be enabled or disabled. Specify printer using atomic name. See printers.conf(4) for information
                       regarding the naming conventions for atomic names.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0               Successful completion.

       non-zero        An error occurred.

FILES

       /var/spool/lp/*         LP print queue.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWpcu                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI                          |enabled                      |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       lp(1), lpstat(1), printers.conf(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10                                                          9 Sep 1996                                                           enable(1)
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