[634] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Fwd: Re: Please add a print server and printer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynne E. Durland)
Mon Oct 30 14:01:43 2000
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:05:50 -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
>Subject: Re: Please add a print server and printer
>Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:46:05 -0500
>From: Camilla R Fox <cfox@MIT.EDU>
>
>
> > I am new at interacting with network printing, other than from an end-user
> > perspective. Rocklyn Clarke, said basically that we just need to register
> > the server and what our software calls a logical destination in moira, and
> > printing from the desktop with lpr or klpr would work.
> >
> > Based on what Rocklyn said I sent the request. As far as I know it should
> > work, and I will certainly be testing that it does. Before alerting the
> > client who will be using this for testing and then production.
> >
> > I do have a dumb question .....lpd ....line printer daemon?
>
>Yeah, it's "line printer daemon" - it's the thing that listens on port
>515 of the print server or printer to accept lpr connections.
>
>Anyhow, I now get a response when I look for an lpd, when I didn't
>before, so I made the hesiod entry for "admissions", as you requested.
>It should have propagated to the hesiod servers by Monday afternoon.
>
>The following is what I was looking for, when I checked to see whether
>plunder was configured to be a print server:
>
>[cfox@myxomycete]cfox$ lpq -Padmissions@plunder
>LOGICAL Prt/Job JOB Global Job Job
> Total Int Submission Job
>Printer State ID Job
>ID Name Orig Size Jobs Time Pri
>---------------- --------- ---- ------------------------- ----------
>---------- ------- ---- ------------------ ----
>admissions UP
>
>
>-Camilla
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