CHAPTER 1 UNIX PRINTING
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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 (print server name; must match name in
/etc/hosts file or use the print server IP address)
Name of queue on remote printer (print server binary or text service name,
eg. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1).
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:
8.
Name of queue to add (user selectable)
9.
Activate the queue (Yes)
10.
Destination host (print server name; must match name in /etc/hosts file or
use the print server IP address)
11.
Name of queue on remote printer (print server binary or text service name,
eg. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1).
12.
Name of device to add (user selectable; for example lp0)
