I'm beginning the investigation of an overhaul of our printing environment here, and I'm having a bit of trouble getting a foothold in our HP systems, so I'm hoping someone can offer some guidance.
I can't find any documentation so far that indicates whether HP-UX accepts the "printers" entry in the nsswitch.conf file like our Sun systems do, or if it queries printers.org_dir - a "tusc" of the lpstat command shows it inquiring with nsswitch.conf, so it seems like it may, but if anyone can point me to something definitive about setting up printers in an NIS+ database, I'd appreciate it.
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Not sure if this is the same as yours but my NIS has a printers map that just has a list of remote printers. There is a script that will add these printers to each system in the lab, through lpadmin(1m).
No wonder I'm confused. The Solaris FAQ documentation about the printers.org_dir table is flat out FALSE.
I got my first clue when I traced an lpstat command through Ethereal to our HP NIS+ server, and saw it asking for a column named "key" rather than "printer_name" as found in the FAQ.
Then I sifted through OpenSolaris source code for the lpset command, which is capable of creating the NIS+ printers.org_dir table if it doesn't exist, and found that the only two columns in the printers.org_dir table are called "key" and "datum."
The "key" appears to be the name of the printer, and the "datum" column is the full colon-delimited line from printers.conf.
Still not quite clear yet whether HP-UX can use printers.org_dir, but at least I'm making some headway.
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