D-Link DPR-1020 User Manual

Unix/Linux Printing 

 

For “flavors” of the Unix operating system derived from or related to the BSD 

releases, such as SunOS 4.x, Linux, BSD/OS, FreeBSD, or NetBSD, you can use 

the following procedure to enable users to print to a printer connected to your 

D-LINK network print server: 

 

1. Log in as the superuser (root). 

2. Add an entry for the print server in the host’s /etc/hosts file, giving a hostname 

for the print server’s IP address. A line in

 

 contains an IP address 

and one or more aliases for the host . For example: 

If you use DNS (the Domain Naming Services protocol), you can add an address 

record entry to your DNS database for the print server. 

3. Create a spool directory for the printer: 

◊  On SunOS systems, create the directory as a subdirectory of /var/spool, 

with the same name as the printer (e.g., /var/spool/hp5l). 

◊  On Linux systems, create the directory as a subdirectory of /user/spool 

. 

◊  On BSD/OS, FreeBSD, or NetBSD systems, create the directory as 

subdirectory of /var/spool. 

4. Change the owner and permissions of the directory so that it is owned and 

writable by group daemon, using the following commands: