Brother NC-2100p [19/96] Ibm rs 6000 aix configuration

CHAPTER 1 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 server name; must match name in

/etc/hosts file or use the print server IP address)

Name of queue on remote printer (print 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 server name; must match name in /etc/hosts file or

use the print server IP address)

11. Name of queue on remote printer (print server binary or text service name,

eg. BINARY_P1 or TEXT_P1).

12. Name of device to add (user selectable; for example lp0)