[632] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Fwd: Re: Please add a print server and printer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynne E. Durland)
Mon Oct 30 14:01:33 2000
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:05:39 -0500
To: printdel@MIT.EDU
From: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
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>To: "Lynne E. Durland" <durland@MIT.EDU>
>cc: hesreq@MIT.EDU, cfox@MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: Please add a print server and printer
>Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:10:25 -0400
>From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
>
>
> > I am part of the Enterprise Print Delivery Team and I would like to
> > request that our print server plunder.mit.edu, 18.92.0.130 be added to the
> > moira database.
> >
> > As an initial print queue I would like to associate a print queue with the
> > name of admissions with the above print server.
>
>It doesn't look like plunder.mit.edu's running an lpd, which makes giving
>hesiod pointers to printers served from it won't do anything as far as
>lpr clients go.
>
>Do you have clients of some other protocol that use hesiod PCAP entries,
>or do you plan to run an lpd on plunder.mit.edu?
>
> > I could not find any information on the web about what information you
> > require for requests.
>
>The usual interface is through the web form at
> http://web.mit.edu/is/help/print/
>It is of course geared to the needs of users requesting queues on our
>print servers, but there's room on the form for specifying your own
>print server, in which case, what you get is a hesiod pointer for the
>printer, so that clients direct the jobs to the appropriate print server
>(and all other configuration is left up to you).
>
>-Camilla
Lynne E. Durland
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