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We have a new printer that we set up on our NT box and
would also like to be able to print from the RS6000 box.
Some of the info that i received said  that the two files
that i need are etc/hosts and etc/printcap.  I dont have
printcap....is there some other way to set this printer up
so that we can print to it from the RS6000? I would
appreciate any input.

Thank YOU!!

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Amie - best thing is go in smit on the RS/6000 and define a remote printer. Make sure that the RS/6000 is on the network and able to communicate with the NT
box. I am assuming that the NT box is setup properly. The only reason you would have to mess with the /etc/hosts file would be if you were not using dns and
had a flat network. If you have a flat network then yes you should have the NT machines ip/name defined in the /etc/hosts file on the Rs/6000.

/etc/printcap is a concept that doesn't exist on AIX at the moment.  In other *NIX flavors, /etc/printcap contains formatting attributes and options which
AIX handles via a mechanism called a virtual printer.  Basically, controls print job processing/formatting.  At any rate, if the printer runs an lpd daemon,
you should be able to setup a remote queue to it.

Best regards,
Paul

Thank you for your response.  The ip address is in my hosts
file. But i tried setting up in smit it doesnt give me the
option to set up a remote printer.  So i'm confused as how
to do this.  If you could help me i would really appreciate
it.  Thank you!

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Hi thanks for responding, the printer an lpd daemon, and i
set up a remote queue in smit.  Would i still have to set
up spooling/plotter for this.  and when i tried to print a
test, i did an lpstat and it said no entries.  So i was
wondering, what am i forgetting or what are the steps to
set this up are.  I would really appreciate your help.
Thank you very much.

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The "no entries" is a message coming back from a print server telling you that it is idle.  So, from that - I'd say the queue is configured correctly.  To
setup a remote queue:

smit mkpq
    Remote
        Local filtering (if you want AIX to format before sending)
        or
        Standard processing (if the server is to do the formatting)
    Fill in the hostname of the print server
    Fill in the name of the queue on the server

The server has to be running an lpd daemon, have a queue by the name specified as the "name of queue on server" you specified when creating the queue on the
AIX client, and has to allow the client to print to its queues - typically by /etc/hosts.lpd file if the server you're going to is a UNIX system.

Regards,
Paul