Printing from remote Solaris/SYSV lp to CUPS?

[Helge Blischke]

martin.wardNOSPAM at uk.neceur.com wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I am trying to implement a central printing service like so:
> 
> A central server running Suse 9.0 linux printing to various HP LaserJet printers.
> A couple of Suse, RedHat and Debian boxes plus numerous Solaris and HP-UX machines printing through the central server to the LJs.
> 
> Now I can get CUPS installed and working on the central server fine, the problem is with the remote servers. I don't have CUPS or CUPS-CLIENT binaries for all of these systems and the main problem is with the Solaris machines. I can, however, install the standard SYSV LP subsystem on those machines.
> 
> The question is: Can I print using the SYSV LP system to a remote printer running fom the CUPS server, is there a model script that will do it? I've scoured the net but to no avail.
> 

Solaris lets you configure the SYSV spooler to print to remote printers
over the net.
AFAIK, you have a choice between SYSV or BSD protocol (the latter being
something close
to LPD as of RFC 1179). But how to do this differs by the Solaris
version, and I
never used this myself (I prefer to compile CUPS and install the client
stuff at least).

Helge

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