passing lp options from clients to printserver

Lincoln Chang (Lincoln.Chang@sv.sc.philips.com)
Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:48:44 -0800 (PST)

Hi Sun Guru,

I have a Solaris 2.6 system used as printer server and used the Jetadmin
(installed in the printer server) to do the configuration for HP printers.
>From this printer server, I can use command:

lp -d<printername> -olandscape <file>

to do landscape mode for printing but not on the clients. The clients are
Solaris 2.5.5 systems which I used admintool instead of Jetadmin to configire
the printer.

I checked the past Summary from someone, and the answer was as following:

>As long as BSD is used as the transport mechanism, on the clients, you
>can replace the eight field in the /etc/lp/Systems file with
>'SVR4-Extensions'.
>
> printhost:x:-:bsd:-:n:10:SVR4-Extensions:-:

The above solution doesn't work for me. Please help. Thanks.

Rgds,

Lincoln Chang
Systems Administrator
Philips Semiconductors