From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 19 17:25:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18311 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:25:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18131 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:24:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt3-79.HiWAAY.net [208.147.146.79]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA18317; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:24:45 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id TAA28180; Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:05:51 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199803200105.TAA28180@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Paul T. Root" , Questions FreeBSD From: David Kelly Subject: Re: printing to solaris 2.6 In-reply-to: Message from Stefan Molnar of "Thu, 19 Mar 1998 12:34:42 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 19:05:51 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stefan Molnar writes: > On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Paul T. Root wrote: > > > Has anyone seen printing problems from a BSD (FreeBSD and SunOS 4.1.3) > > to a Solaris 2.6 machine running as a print server? in.lpd core > > dumps on the solaris box, whether sending a text or postscript > > file. > > It will not work. The lp print services will not work in 2.6. When > 2.6 was made lp was out and sunsoft print client/server. Also 2.6 > does not come with drivers for printers. You will need to get the > printing package from sunsoft. so your box can be a print server. In similar situations I always find consulting the FreeBSD ports collection to be handy. In /usr/ports/sysutils is a port of LPRng. You might try "make fetch" then taking the downloaded source over to the Solaris 2.6 system, build and install it there (assuming you have a C compiler on the Solaris system). Might be able to find pre-built Solaris 2.6 binaries of LPRng somewhere on the net. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message