Subject: Re: adding network printers
To: Eduardo Villasenor de Rivas <eddr@celtech.com>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@rumolt.teuto.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/04/1998 07:32:24
> Please let me know printers are added/deleted to netBSD including network
> printers. Also how printer service is started and maintained.
We use a network printer named "hp" (i.e.: you can do "telnet hp" to
configure it); here is the /etc/printcap entry:
---8<---
# $NetBSD: printcap,v 1.3 1996/05/08 17:19:45 thorpej Exp $
# @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
#lp|local line printer:\
# :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
lp|Default Printer:\
:rm=hp:sd=/var/spool/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
--->8---
Martin