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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!csnews!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!stout.entertain.com!not-for-mail From: dwatson@stout.entertain.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Portmaster parallel port help Date: 2 Mar 1996 16:28:54 -0700 Organization: ABWAM, Inc., full service ISP, voice: 1+ 303 730-6050 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4haljm$icq@stout.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stout.entertain.com Hi netters! I have a livingston portmaster 2E from which I have hung an OKIDATA 6e/PS postscript printer, and a server with BSDi 2.0 with patches. I am trying to print to that printer from my server. I am trying to modify the /etc/printcap file for a remote printer, using the rm= and lp= tags. It is really difficult to figure out from the manual how to set up the portmaster so that I can print to that port! Do I have to set it up so that it is a 'virtual' device from my server? Or can I set it up so that I can print right to it, like I have set up other remote print jobs to do, when the remote printer is hanging off a different server? Any pointers appreciated!