Setting up Printing

If you don't have a local printer on your NeXT, at CERN the easiest thing is to use the printing facilities on a remote unix machine. This is documented on p54 of the v1 "Network and System administration".

The steps are as follows:

Get the system manager of the server machine (e.g. Rainer Tobbicke rtb@cernapo ) to add the name of your machine to his /etc/hosts.lpd or /etc/hosts.equiv file. Rainer provides a CERN-wide service from node "springer".
Find out the name on the server system of the printer you wish to use - on node springer, the standard CERN names are used. See list- use the name from the first column. [On other machines, the name will be in the server's /etc/printcap file, on a line which starts with a non-space non-comment character].
Make your own /etc/printcap file. You can copy a friend's and modify it, or hack the example one which comes with the machine. For a remote PostScript printer you want to be called "hisprinter" or alias "hm", but is actually known by the server "springer" as "myprinter", the format would be:

hisprinter|hm\ :lp=:rm=springer:rp=myprinter:sd=/usr/spool/lpd:pl=#66\ :ty=PostScript

Become superuser, and add the printer information to the netinfo database with the commands:

su root niload printcap . </etc/printcap Instead of the lasttwo steps, I just set the same infromation up with NetInfoManager, with the same effect. This is in fact the recommended method in the NeXT version 2 book.

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Tim BL