Ricoh AP2610N setup guide Making the spool directory, Making the log file

Using the Installation Shell Script

❖Making the spool directory

Create a spool directory under /var/spool/lpd. The name of spool directory should be the name of the printer followed by a “d”.

Note

❒ The spool directory is used to control the data used for a print job. For ex- 1 ample, when a print job is created, a temporary copy of the file data used

for printing is created in the spool directory. All workstations accessing the network printer need to have a spool directory for the network printer.

❒A spool directory should be made for every network printer entry listed in the /etc/printcap file.

❒The spool directory should normally be made under /var/spool/lpd and the name should match that listed under the sd capability in /etc/print- cap. Change the owner and group of the directory to root and lp. The fol- lowing examples show how to make a /var/spool/lpd/npd spool directory.

#cd /var/spool/lpd

#mkdir npd

#chown root np

#chgrp lp np

❖Making the log file

Error messages are logged to a file created in the /var/log directory. The log file name is the printer name followed by “d-errs”.

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❖Adding the IP address and host name to the /etc/hosts file

The following line is added to the /etc/hosts file.

192.168.15.16 nphost # Network Printer

•192.168.15.16 is the IP address, nphost is the host name, from # to the end of the line is a comment.

Note

❒The /etc/hosts file contains a list of the IP addresses and their host names of all of the hosts communicating on the network. Each entry is delimited with a space or a tab, and each line is separated with a return.

❒If you do not use NIS or DNS, you must manually enter the IP address and host name of each workstation using the network printer in the /etc/hosts file.

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