| Solaris 10: How to get CUPS printing going? |
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| Written by Remco Lengers |
| Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:38 |
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Here is a description on how to get CUPS printing going on Solaris 10: Download the Companion CD for Solaris 10 GA on: Solaris 10 Companion cd download Unzip the iso file: bunzip2 software_companion_sparc.iso.bz2 Mount the iso image: lofiadm -a /export/data/software_companion_sparc.iso mount the cd: mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt cd /mnt/components/sparc/Packages pkgadd -d . SFWcups Packages: SFWcups, SFWgcmn, SFWoscp, SFWespgs, SFWgcc34l Edit the cups config file: /opt/sfw/cups/etc/cups/cupsd.conf <pre> 1. PrintcapFormat: the format of the printcap file, currently either 2. BSD or Solaris. The default is "BSD". 3. 4. PrintcapFormat BSD PrintcapFormat Solaris </pre> Delete the old printers, if any in: /usr/sadm/admin/bin/printmgr Get the old lp printing system out of the way: mv /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp.solaris ln -s /opt/sfw/cups/bin/lp /usr/bin/lp Stop the services from the old lp system: svcadm disable application/print/ipp-listener svcadm disable application/print/server svcadm disable application/print/rfc1179 Get the CUPS starting scripts in place: cp /opt/sfw/cups/etc/init.d/cups /etc/init.d ln -s /etc/init.d/cups /etc/rc2.d/S99cups ln -s /etc/init.d/cups /etc/rc1.d/K99cups Start the CUPS Scheduler: /etc/init.d/cups start cups: started scheduler. CUPS manual CUPS admin page Then connect to admin page: (Login as root) And create a new printer: In my case a HP Jetdir 170x device to a Photosmart P1100 printer: "HP Jetdirect" "Device URI: socket://JETDIR:9100/" If the printer works: Modify printer to print on A4 for Europe. In other case Ethernet to USB + Photosmart xxxxx printer: "LPR/LPD" Device URI: lpd://printer2:515/1 |
| Last Updated on Friday, 23 May 2008 17:46 |
