how to retrieve if a remote printer BSD or not?

[M. Vogt]

Hello,

we have a running customer-system.
is there a possibility to get out if a remote printer queue is added wich or without the BSD-flag in SAM?
Can't find any information about that in SAM...

Regards, Michael.

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

There is no way to query this information from the remote server. BSD refers to the format of the protocol and a 3 digit limit to the number of a print spool file. The easy way to determine BSD (versus SysV) is that all HP-UX systems are SysV. All versions of Windows that have Unix printing enabled are BSD. However, BSD is always compatible with SysV so you can always use BSD for everything. The only time you'd want to uncheck BSD is for remote HP-UX servers--that is to enable -o options to be fully operational on the remote system. -o options are ignored at remote BSD systems.

[M. Vogt]

Hello,

the BSD-protocol seems to be different from the non-BSD-protocol.
Our printserver (océ) ist not able to use the files spooled by the non-BSD-printerqueue.
So the lpsched has to know what protocol to use for the specified queue...
am i right?
if so, where ist the information about BSD or not?

Regards, Michae

[Bill Hassell]

As I mentioned, BSD is compatible with all servers. Always used the BSD option. There is no simple way to determine the type of spooling system in use on a remote computer. The two flavors of Unix (SysV and BSD) are no longer easy to define as various manufacturers use features fromm both systems. HP-UX has many BSD networking features but has a SysV spooler. PC's running MS Windows all use BSD unless some add-on product or freeware has been loaded. Use BSD for everything.