This oughta be real simple but it has me boloxed.

I have a standalone Ultra 5 running Sol 9. An Apple printer is
attached and has been working for years.

I just acquired an iMac, and I want to be able to print from the
iMac on the Apple printer.

Each machine can ping the other by name, so name service is
working.

AFIK both are running CUPS (AFIK standard for both OSs). So my
thinking is all I have to do is make the printer visible over
the network so the iMac can see it.

In the Printer Admin tool I changed the authorized users to all.

Does "all" refer to all users on the U5, or to
all print requests including those received from the iMac?

According to the book I have, Solaris 9 Sysadmin Guide 3rd ed.
by Winsor, the Printer Admin tool would take care of enabling
a port for print requests, but sacadm -l shows

PMTAG PMTYPE FLGS RCNT STATUS COMMAND
zsmon ttymon - 0 ENABLED /usr/lib/saf/ttymon #

doc.sun.com doesn't help; the page that describes adding access
to a printer is worthless IMHO.

What do I have to do to get the iMac printing? Links to pages where
how to do what I want would be greatly appreciated.

TIA

Rod Miller

On Mar 12, 1:35 am, Rod Miller <h...@speakeasy.net> wrote:

> What do I have to do to get the iMac printing? Links to pages where
> how to do what I want would be greatly appreciated.

Have you tried just configuring the printer on the mac? Do whatever
the add-new-printer thing is and tell it that it needs to talk to a
remote LPD on the Sun, giving it the printer name. This worked
trivially for me. You may need to have done an lpdadmin -p <printer> -
u allow:all first but I think this is the default.