CHAPTER 12 UNIX PRINTING

IBM RS/6000 AIX Configuration

The RS/6000 AIX operating system uses the smit program to set up the remote printer. The procedure is as follows for AIX 4.0 and later:

1.Enter smit and select "devices"

2.Select "Printer/Plotter"

3.Select "Print Spooling"

4.Select "Add a Print Queue"

5.Select "Remote"

6.Enter the following Remote Printer Settings:

Name of queue (user selectable)

Host name of Remote Printer (Print / Fax server name; must match name in /etc/hosts file or use the Print / Fax server IP address)

Name of queue on remote printer (Print / Fax server binary or text service name, eg. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1).

Type of print spooler. BSD (press the LIST button and choose BSD)

The procedure for pre-V4.0 systems is as follows.

1.Enter smit and select "devices"

2.Select "printer/plotter"

3.Select "manage remote printer subsystem"

4.Select "client services"

5.Select "remote printer queues"

6.Select "add a remote queue"

7.Enter the following remote queue settings:

8.Name of queue to add (user selectable)

9.Activate the queue (Yes)

10.Destination host (Print / Fax server name; must match name in /etc/hosts file or use the Print / Fax server IP address)

11.Name of queue on remote printer (Print / Fax server binary or text service name, eg. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1).

12.Name of device to add (user selectable; for example lp0)

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