Section 3

TCP/IP Network Configuration

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 (TROY Print server name; must match name /etc/hosts file or use TROY print server IP address)

Name of queue on remote server (TROY print server binary or text service name) 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:

Name of queue to add (user selectable) Activate the queue (Yes)

Destination host (TROY print server name; must match name in /etc/hosts file or use the print server IP address)

Name of queue on remote printer (TROY print server binary or text service name) Name of device to add (user selectable; for example, lp0)

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