From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 23 20:58:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA06780 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:58:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aries.bb.cc.wa.us (root@[208.8.136.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA06764 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:58:49 -0700 (PDT) From: steve@aries.bb.cc.wa.us Received: from cslab3.bb.cc.wa.us (cslab3.bb.cc.wa.us [208.8.136.23]) by aries.bb.cc.wa.us (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id UAA09858; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610240352.UAA09858@aries.bb.cc.wa.us> Comments: Authenticated sender is To: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 20:53:25 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: printing to printer on novell net CC: questions@freebsd.org Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.31) Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Easiest way - > > 1) use JetAdmin (or whatever they're calling it now) to assign an > IP address to the jet direct interface. > > 2) telnet to that IP address, and follow the help screens to turn off the > banner. > > 3) add a line in /etc/hosts for the printer > > 4) add the following lines to /etc/printcap > > lp|hp4sales1|Sales HP4 Plus 1:\ > :lp=/dev/null:rm=hp4sales1.bfd.com:rp=text:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp4sales1:mx#0: > > where the rm= field is set to your printer's hostname (from step 3). > This was so helpful, but I ran into a problem. My printjobs go through, but no formfeed is sent at the end. I have read printcap 101 times, and tried just about everything I can think of. Am I missing something easy? I put the printcap entry exactly like you have it (except the rm field). Steven Prentice