Re: remote printer with dynamic ip-adress
From: Tim Moor (tim.moor_at_nospam.com)
Date: 05/19/05
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Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:53:38 +0200
paul,
thank you very much for your help. it works great.
tim
<laixsoft@laixsoft.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> "Tim Moor" <tim.moor@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:d6g4u3$lg$1@atlas.ip-plus.net...
> > dear aix gurus,
> > a few of my customer have access via adsl/vpn to my aix 5.2 based apps.
> > for printing they have ms-lpd services activated on their clients. now
> > each time they access our aix boxes via adsl/vpn they get a different ip
> > adresse out from a pool. how can i send print output to them as they
> > always do have different ip adresses ? i use remote printing on my aix
box
> > and i have to define the host, i want the printjob to be sent.
>
> Examine your /etc/qonfig file and see if you are using rembak or piorflb
for
> these queues. For the example below, I've assumed rembak is being used.
>
> Create a script somewhere and give it execute permissions for everyone.
>
> #!/bin/ksh
> /usr/lib/lpd/rembak -S $PRINTHOST -P $PRINTQUEUE "$@"
> exit $?
>
> Create a new queue that prints to /dev/null:
> smit mkpq
> print to a file
> /dev/null
>
> You now have a new queue that just discards (sends to /dev/null) anything
> you queue to it.
>
> Change this queue so that it invokes the above script as a backend.
Either
> vi /etc/qconfig or:
> chquedev -q queuename -d null -a "backend = /path/to/your/script"
>
> Now, in these users' .profile (or elsewhere) you could set the PRINTHOST
and
> PRINTQUEUE variables:
> export PRINTHOST=`who am i |cut -d'(' -f2|sed 's/)//g'`
> export PRINTQUEUE=`the queue name on this users PC`
>
> Whenever the user logs in, the PRINTHOST variable is set to their
> workstation's current hostname and PRINTQUEUE is set to the name of the
> queue on their workstation. This single queue could then be used as a
> remote queue to ALL users workstations. When any user submits a print
job,
> the value of PRINTHOST set in their .profile will be used in the backend
> script. Effectively, you've created a single remote queue to any queue
on
> any host. Each time the user signs in and gets a new dynamic IP, the
> PRINTHOST variable will be set correctly.
>
> Best regards,
> Paul
> http://www.laixsoft.com
>
>
>
>
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