Re: Host-based printing in linux

James Rich <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.tn5250
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, John Aldrich wrote:

> How does one set up a host-based AS/400 printer in Linux? We have several
> laser printers hooked up to Windows PCs that print through Windows from the
> AS/400 and I'd like to replicate that in Linux.
>
> I know I need to get the printer set up in Linux first, but then what? How
> does one set up an AS/400 "Printer" on the local machine?

The short answer is to create a printer session definition in your 
tn5250rc file and then start lp5250d passing that session name as an 
argument.  The long answer is to read the HOWTO:

http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/tn5250-HOWTO.pdf

James Rich

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the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
when you're done reading them :)
 	- Paul Davis on ardour-dev
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