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CHAPTER 12 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 / Fax server name; must match name
in /etc/hosts file or use the Print / Fax server IP address)
Name of queue on remote printer (Print / Fax 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 / Fax server name; must match name in /etc/hosts
file or use the Print / Fax server IP address)
11. Name of queue on remote printer (Print / Fax server binary or text
service name, eg. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1)
12. Name of device to add (user selectable; for example lp0)