remote LPD on port 516

Asked Mar 11 '19 at 10:38

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Some colleges have setup an Infoprint LPD printer on a remote host. Because of another print system using port 515 on this remote server, they have setup the Infoprint LPD on port 516.

Normally I use the command below to setup a remote printer/queue on AIX, but I can't find anything about changing the default LPR/LPD port.

/usr/lib/lpd/pio/etc/piomisc_ext mkpq_remote_ext -q 'local_q' -h 'host' -r 'remote_q' -t 'bsd' -C 'FALSE' -d 'description'

Do any of you know how to set it up for another port than 515?

Thanks in advance
Claus

edited Mar 11 '19 at 10:55

Gopal Bhuva

asked Mar 11 '19 at 10:38

Claus Holmelin Hoyer

Tried option `-p 516` yet? – Lorinczy Zsigmond Mar 11 '19 at 11:28
YES! mkpq_remote_ext[10]: getopts: 0403-010 A specified flag is not valid for this command. – Claus Holmelin Hoyer Mar 11 '19 at 12:21
My second guess:`-P 516` with upper-case 'p' – Lorinczy Zsigmond Mar 11 '19 at 13:15
I will try, but none of documentation mentions that. – Claus Holmelin Hoyer Mar 11 '19 at 16:02
Okay! It didn't return any errors. :-) I have to wait for network to open firewall, and then I'll come back with the result. Thank you so far. – Claus Holmelin Hoyer Mar 11 '19 at 16:23
well -P don't give an error, but isn't working. I asked IBM, and it kan only be done by changing 515 -> 516 in /etc/services. This will also change the local lpd printers :-( – Claus Holmelin Hoyer Mar 26 '19 at 13:36
Oh well, that's right, checked the script in question, it does have an `-P` option, but that does something else (also it takes a TRUE|FALSE value, not a number) -- Perhaps you could run a port forwarder (eg rinetd) on another computer... – Lorinczy Zsigmond Mar 26 '19 at 16:02

remote LPD on port 516

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