Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:46:09 +0200 (EET) From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: ewhitenr@performtech.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Netport Express Print Server Message-ID: <199711111346.PAA01605@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <3467565C.AD12336C@performtech.com> from Eric Whitener at "Nov 10, 97 01:45:48 pm"
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Once Eric Whitener wrote:
> I am trying to get our FreeBSD box to print to a printer on an Intel
> NetportExpress PRO/100 Print Server. Has anybody done this? Can anyone
> tell me how to do this?
1) Configure `TCP/IP Print Server' on your Netport XL and assign
different ip addresses to each printer you wish to print to.
2) Describe remote printer in your /etc/printcap file.
I use this one to print on Epson DFX-8000 connected to lpt1 of Netport XL:
***************************************************************************
* dfx|Epson DFX-8000:\ *
* :rm=dfx.netport1:sd=/var/spool/output/dfx:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ *
* :rp=TEXT:sf:sb: *
***************************************************************************
rm - is the machine name for remote printer.
You can specify either ip address or hostname here.
In my case I use `dfx.netport1' - the ip address assigned to
my Epson DFX-8000.
rp - is the remote printer name.
As stated in the `Netport Express XL & EL Print Servers Release
Notes for Version 3.20' (file readme.wri) it should be TEXT for
text jobs and PASSTHRU for binary data. This is important.
If you didn't specify a correct remote printer name then netport
will refuse to print.
Regards,
--
Ruslan A. Ermilov System Administrator
ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank
+380-652-247647 Simferopol, Crimea
2426679 ICQ Network, UIN
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