System Administration Guide

Example--Adding Access on the Print Client using LP Commands

If you want to print to a remote printer, you must add access to the remote printer. This example shows how to configure access to a printer named luna, whose print server is saturn. The system saturn becomes a print client of the printer luna.


 [Identifies the printer and the print server.] # lpadmin -p luna -s saturn
 [Adds a description for the printer.] # lpadmin -p luna -D "Room 1954 ps"
 [Sets the printer as the system's default printer destination.] # lpadmin -d luna
 [Verifies that the printer is ready.] # lpstat -p luna
		printer luna is idle. enabled since Jun 24 18:30 1996. available.