On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 08:11:51PM +0100, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
>
> Send_job is the name of the lprng function for sending a job to a remote
> print server. If you specifiy
>
> 515@172.25.1.122
>
> as printer, it will try to connect to port 515 on 172.25.1.122 (default
> port) and then try to spool the job to printer 515, cf
>
> ,----
> | The rm (remote machine or host) and rp or lp printer printcap options
> | are used to specify the remote host and printer to be used. These values
> | can be extracted from a printcap entry, or supplied in the following
> | manner.
> |
> | If the user program is invoked with -Pxxx argument, then the lp
> | option is assigned the value xxx.
> |
> | If no explicit value is specified and the PRINTER environment
> | variable has value xxx, then the lp option is assigned value xxx.
> |
> | If lp has a value of the form rp@rm or rp@rm%port, then the rp, rm,
> | and lpd_port options are assigned the indicated values.
> |
> | If rm or rp does not have a value, then they are assigned the
> | default_host (usually localhost) and default_printer (usually lp)
> | option values.
> |
> | A connection is made to lpd_port on host rm and the file transfer or
> | command is sent as specified in RFC1179.
> `----
> http://www.brunel.ac.uk/~tony/LPRng/LPRng-HOWTO-5.html#rp
Now that's useful documentation. Thank you. I wish I had found it
earlier. So the lp should be
something@172.25.1.122
or equivalently,
something@172.25.1.122:515
and I'll have to find the printer documentation to find out how it
refers to itself; that will be what I specify as 'something'.
-- hendrik