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- From: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
- Subject: lp vs lpr
- Date: 4 Jan 1993 03:08:20 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: cq377@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David C. Williss)
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- I have a problem which I can't seem to make work. I have a printer
- on one machine which is running SYSV (with lp for printing). I
- also have a sun running BSD (lpr for printing). My problem is that
- I can't seem to make the Sun talk to the SYSV system. I think that
- the problem is on the SYSV end, because I _had_ the printer on an
- IBM RS6000 which also uses "lp". However, it had a nifty gui interface
- for setting it all up. The new SYSV machine also has a gui interface
- to set it up, but doesn't seem to allow me to control other machine's
- ability to connect to the printer. It'll let me connect to remote
- printers, but not all others to connect to its printer. I quickly
- gave up and looked at the manual, but it only told how to use the gui.
-
- I tried man pages, but no luck. I found an "accept" command which
- looks like it should do what I need, but the BSD system still can't
- print. It says that it's "waiting for jolt to come up" or some
- such thing (yes, I can "ping" it, I can telnet to it. It's there.)
-
- Anybody got a clue what I might be doing wrong?
-
- -Dave
-
- PS: Oh, specifics. The Printer is on an SGI Iris running IRIX.
- The Other machine is a Sun IPX.
-
- --
- -Dave Williss
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