Very Computer

Hi,

I have spent the last 6 hours chasing a how-to on installing a
network printer under Solaris 2.6 on x86.

The specific printer is a HP8100N and I downloaded the JetAdmin
products for the 8100 and only after installing 2 different
version got the message that they are only for SPARC systems.

Grrr.

Anyway, can anyone point me at the Dummies How-To to install a
network printer (TCP/IP) under Solaris x86?

Many thanks,

Tony

I got this from a previous posting and added it to my post-install
jumpstart scripts. Our developers would*the filters up, so I
combined that with the original...

#!/usr/bin/ksh
# Create the default network printer
# Stolen from postings on usenet
# Add filters as needed if Developers*up again
lpadmin -p printername -v /dev/null -m netstandard
lpadmin -p printername -o protocol=bsd -o dest=x.x.x.x
lpadmin -p printername -T PS -I postscript
enable printername
accept printername
lpadmin -d printername

if [ ! -d /usr/lib/lp/postscript/download ]; then
        cd /etc/lp/fd
        lpfilter -f download -F download.fd
        lpfilter -f dpost -F dpost.fd
        lpfilter -f postio -F postio.fd
        lpfilter -f postior -F postior.fd
        lpfilter -f postprint -F postprint.fd
        lpfilter -f postreverse -F postreverse.fd
fi

Feel free to add or modify, but if you have any goodies to ad/fix, post
them for me and others...

Gary

Try this:

lpadmin -p <printername> -v /dev/null -m netstandard -o dest=<hostname
or ipaddress of network printer> -I postscript -T PS

accept <printername>
enable <printername>

It's the same command for Sparc systems.

That assumes your printer is postscript capable, which I'm pretty sure
that model of HP is.

It's a good idea to update your lp patch before you do this.  For 2.6
x86 that would be 106236-08.  Incidentally, the Vividata company does
have an unsupported version of Jetadmin for x86.

Hi all,

Many thanks for the reply.

(This is from my home account .. it got later  :)   )

I tried to do what I think was a similar thing under admintool
but it would not accept the IP address as the destination ..
I will get back to it on monday and get it working and see if
I can find out where I went wrong.

Thanks.

Tony

Quote:>I tried to do what I think was a similar thing under admintool
>but it would not accept the IP address as the destination ..

Thats an old bug. I don't think it was ever fixed because
serious people don't use GUI administration tools when well
documented command line interfaces exist that behave as their
documented.

Anyway, follow anyone of Greg Andrews' numerous posts on the subject:
http://groups.google.com/
network printer (group:comp.unix.solaris OR group:alt.solaris.x86)

John

Hi,

Thanks for the info .. This is a pity as I thought that Sun was
better than that to leave a bug in like that.

My guess is that it would not have been too hard to fix given that
the command line supports it .  :(
(This is based on my unsubstantiated guess that the graphical interface
merely front ends the commandline program).

Tony

Quote:

>Thanks for the info .. This is a pity as I thought that Sun was
>better than that to leave a bug in like that.

>My guess is that it would not have been too hard to fix given that
>the command line supports it .  :(
>(This is based on my unsubstantiated guess that the graphical interface
>merely front ends the commandline program).

Admintool hasn't had new features added since Solaris 2.5.1 (which
didn't have network printer support in 1996).  It doesn't support
printer maps via NIS or NIS+ either.

Instead, Sun has been developing the Solstice Adminsuite programs,
including Printer Manager.  NIS/NIS+ and everything.

  -Greg
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