Section 4 - Appendix B - Application Considerations
IBM’s AIX ver. 3.x for Printing with the OkiLAN 6120e
This application note describes the configuration of the printing system on IBM’s AIX version 3.x of the UNIX operating system. The following specific names will be used to represent general devices or concepts.
•lj4 - The local queue name on the AIX system to which print jobs that are destined for a printer attached to the OkiLAN 6120e will be directed.
•OKIPRINTER - The host name of the remote system which is the OkiLAN 6120e. For example, to telnet to the OkiLAN 6120e and invoke the OkiLAN 6120e Configuration utility, you would type telnet OKIPRINTER. A host name is not required for the OkiLAN 6120e, the IP Address may be used.
•yourqueuename - This is the name of the queue on the OkiLAN 6120e and must end with 1 or 2, depending on the port selected to service the print jobs.
If FF, LF or NF are the last two letters of the queue name, the job will be converted accordingly. See pages
Prerequisites
Before you proceed, the name OKIPRINTER and the IP address assigned to the OkiLAN 6120e should be in the “/etc/hosts” file on the AIX system.
Procedure
To configure the AIX machine so that users can spool print jobs to the pcl2 print queue on the OkiLAN 6120e named OKIPRINTER, do the following:
1.Login to the AIX machine as root.
2.Invoke the SMIT utility by typing:
AIX> smit <enter>
TCP/IP
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