lpd printing and a IP based printer on SCO

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I am attempting to setup an IP based printer in a SCO environment. It is a cognitive printer. I attempted to add it via the HP interface but I could not get anything sent from the spooler to the printer in SCO?

My questions is or are should this be setup as a local or remote printer? When I read about local and remote, remote is when you want one SCO server to use a printer defined on another SCO box. In my setup, I have only one SCO box. The cognitive printer is IP based on the network?? How should I connect it? I can print to it via Windozs...

Thanking you in advance for any input into the issue....

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this is how my lpd spooler is configured (/etc/printcap):

hp|PS;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=a4;m=auto:\
    :lp=:\
    :rm=192.168.0.200:\
    :rp=raw:\
    :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp:\
    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/hp/log:\
    :af=/var/spool/lpd/hp/acct:\
    :mx#0:\
    :sh:

... currently, lpd connects directly to a JetDirect Print Server (not to a UNIX specific SO). This is on FreeBSD using APSFILTER.

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SCO is different in the way it sets up printers... My printcap just has definitions of all printers that are defined as being remote printers.

This is what SCO provides....

# Remote Line Printer (BSD format)
xeroxoak0:\
:lp=:rm=xeroxoak:rp=xeroxoak0:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/xeroxoak0:mx#0:
winpricelbl:\
:lp=/dev/null:ex:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/winpricelbl:mx#0:
oakblast:\
:lp=:rm=windsor.simon-pearce:ex:rp=oakblast:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/oakblast:m
x#0:
ADMINRPTCMP:\
:lp=/dev/null:ex:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/ADMINRPTCMP:mx#0:
cogadlx:\
:lp=/dev/null:ex:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/cogadlx:mx#0:

"printcap" 11 lines, 397 characters

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I don't really see any difference but the filters...

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You are correct.... But, do I really want a remote configuration of the printer? I guess that is my real question. Does remote mean the adding of a printer from a remote server to another? Or, is my senerio also a remote config???

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Your printer is considered to be a remote printer (as far I know) if it is not attached to an local device such as lpt port, serial port, usb port (maybe another else). A remote printer can use network connection using lpd, samba (I think appletalk and netware too, but I've never used it). Some printers can hang LPD requests themselves, others are attached to UNIX boxes via parallel port (or another local port) or to Windows boxes so you can access them through Samba.

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The SCO is used for a base for a Point of Sale Software Package. There are many printers setup as local. I guess I am looking at it from the wrong frame off reference? The POS software prints to printers that are defined as being local printers. Local or remote is thusly based upon the frame of reference of the workstation and not the server. This means that I would be setting up the printers as remote, but with the way SCO sets it up, does it mean that you would have to define a remote printer for each workstation? The reason I ask this is when I define a remote printer in SCO it wants to know source1 and source 2. Is my thinking (or rambling) correct??