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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us>
Subject: Re: New server need to migrate printers.
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 10:24:23 -0700
References: <950cf850.0306190837.f2d7e88@posting.google.com> <20030619170053.GA1350@jpradley.jpr.com> 

On 19 Jun 2003 13:00:54 -0400, Jean-Pierre Radley <jpr@jpr.com> wrote:

>Tim Ford typed (on Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:37:25AM -0700):
>| Hello all. I'm looking for a script or some direction in moving hp
>| jetdirect networked printers from an old 5.0.6 machine to a new 5.0.7
>| machine. Any Ideas is greatly appreciated. Thanks
>
>Just go ahead and copy /usr/spool/lp/*/lp/ from one machine to the other.

That works fine if the printers use static IP's and are *NOT*
configured with LPR/LPD.  

If bootp is used to assign IP's, you'll also need:
  /etc/bootptab
You should only have one bootp server online at a time, so comment out
the sections in the old /etc/bootptab if both machines are going to be
online at the same time.

If LPR/LPD is used, you'll also need:
  /usr/spool/lpd/*
  /etc/printcap


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