SUMMARY: Add lpr printers in Solaris 10

Thanks to Matthew Stier for a quick response. Yep, Sun changed printing in
Sol
10 update 5 (05/08) by going to Open Standard Print API. The relevant
document
is http://dlc.sun.com/pdf/819-7355/819-7355.pdf. The lpadmin commands still
work but there are additional "options". The down size is that my printer
discovery scripts will not work with the new stuff. Such is progress.

JC

------ Original Message ------
Received: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 09:45:31 AM EST
From: "JESSE CARROLL" <jesse-carroll@usa.net>
To: <sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org>
Subject: Add lpr printers in Solaris 10

Greetings,

A curious issue with adding lpr (remote) printers in different versions of
Solairs 10. I get different results in /etc/printers.conf for the same
lpadmin
command. Anyone know why this changed and how to get the info to match? The
only difference is the version of Solaris 10.

for release: Solaris 10 8/07

# lpadmin -p DP65 -s XEROX65!DP65

in /etc/printers.conf
DP65:\
	:bsdaddr=XEROX65,DP65,Solaris:

# lpstat -lp DP65
printer DP65 faulted printing DP65-0. enabled since Dec 09 14:37 2008.
available.
        server XEROX65 not responding
        Remote Name: DP65
        Remote Server: XEROX65


for release: Solaris 10 5/08

# lpadmin -p DP65 -s XEROX65!DP65
in /etc/printers.conf
DP65:\

:printer-uri-supported=lpd\://XEROX65.printers.chep.com/printers/DP65#Solaris
:\
        :bsdaddr=XEROX65,DP65,Solaris:
# lpstat -lp DP65
Failed to get printer info for DP65: not-found
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