Adding printers

The remote printer must be mounted on a local mount point. For example, if the directory /lmc/printers/printer1 existed on the local machine, then the remote printer lpt1 on server jupiter (user level security) would require mounting using the following command:

mount -f LMCFS, printer jupiter/lpt1 /lmc/printers/printer1

Before you could do this, you must configure the printer. To access a shared printer:

1. Log in as root on the client.

2. Create a file called /usr/spool/lp/remote containing a line with the following format for each remote printer:
   
   printer:<Tab>/usr/spool/lp/bin/rlcmlp -D remote -S svr [ -P pass ]

   printer is the name by which the client knows the remote printer. The rlcmlp command is provided to transfer file(s) to the print server. rlcmlp takes the following options:

   -D remote

   Specifies the name of the printer on the print server.

   -P pass

   Specifies the plain-text password for access to the printer. This option is only needed for share-level servers that require a password to access the printer.

   -S svr

   Specifies the name of the print server.

   For example, if you want to give the name printer1 to the remote printer lpt1 on the share-level server jupiter with password ``clydenw'', the entry should read:

   printer1:       /usr/spool/lp/bin/rlmclp -D lpt1 -S jupiter -P clydenw
   

3. Change the owner and group of /usr/spool/lp/remote to lp:
   
   chown lp:lp /usr/spool/lp/remote

4. Make /usr/spool/lp/remote publicly readable:
   
   chmod 444 /usr/spool/lp/remote

5. Define the printer to the print service, start accepting requests for it, and enable printing on it:
   
   /usr/lib/lpadmin -p printer -v /dev/null -m network
   accept printer
   enable printer

6. Test by printing a short ASCII file such as /etc/default/issue:
   
   lp -c -d printer /etc/default/issue