1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2 3<html> 4 <head> 5 <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org"> 6 <title>Default Printer and Server Host</title> 7 <meta name="GENERATOR" content= 8 "Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"> 9 <link rel="HOME" title=" LPRng Reference Manual" href= 10 "index.htm"> 11 <link rel="UP" title= 12 "LPRng Clients - lpr, lprm, lpq, lpc, lpstat " href= 13 "lprngclients.htm"> 14 <link rel="PREVIOUS" title="First Printcap Entry" href= 15 "x4148.htm"> 16 <link rel="NEXT" title="Force Connection to Localhost " href= 17 "forcelocalhost.htm"> 18 </head> 19 20 <body class="SECT1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link= 21 "#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> 22 <div class="NAVHEADER"> 23 <table summary="Header navigation table" width="100%" border= 24 "0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 25 <tr> 26 <th colspan="3" align="center">LPRng Reference Manual: 5 27 Sep 2003 (For LPRng-3.8.22)</th> 28 </tr> 29 30 <tr> 31 <td width="10%" align="left" valign="bottom"><a href= 32 "x4148.htm" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> 33 34 <td width="80%" align="center" valign="bottom">Chapter 5. 35 <b class="APPLICATION">LPRng</b> Clients - lpr, lprm, 36 lpq, lpc, lpstat</td> 37 38 <td width="10%" align="right" valign="bottom"><a href= 39 "forcelocalhost.htm" accesskey="N">Next</a></td> 40 </tr> 41 </table> 42 <hr align="LEFT" width="100%"> 43 </div> 44 45 <div class="SECT1"> 46 <h1 class="SECT1"><a name="DEFAULTRMRP">5.7. Default Printer 47 and Server Host</a></h1> 48 49 <p>Options used:</p> 50 51 <ul> 52 <li> 53 <p><var class="LITERAL">default_remotehost=</var><span 54 class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">default rm (remote 55 host)</i></span></p> 56 </li> 57 58 <li> 59 <p><var class="LITERAL">default_printer=</var><span 60 class="emphasis"><i class="EMPHASIS">default rp (remote 61 printer)</i></span></p> 62 </li> 63 </ul> 64 <br> 65 <br> 66 67 <p>If the preceding steps do not yield a printer name and the 68 <var class="LITERAL">require_explicit_q</var> flag is not set 69 then the <var class="LITERAL">default_printer</var> and <var 70 class="LITERAL">default_remote_host</var> values from the <tt 71 class="FILENAME">lpd.conf</tt> configuration file will be 72 used. If there is no configuration file, then the compile 73 time defaults will be used.</p> 74 75 <p>Using the fallback values is usually not a desirable event 76 and may indicate that you have a misconfigured host, so the 77 compile time defaults are usually set to <var class= 78 "LITERAL">missingprinter@localhost</var> to provide an 79 annoying message for users.</p> 80 </div> 81 82 <div class="NAVFOOTER"> 83 <hr align="LEFT" width="100%"> 84 85 <table summary="Footer navigation table" width="100%" border= 86 "0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 87 <tr> 88 <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top"><a href= 89 "x4148.htm" accesskey="P">Prev</a></td> 90 91 <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href= 92 "index.htm" accesskey="H">Home</a></td> 93 94 <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top"><a href= 95 "forcelocalhost.htm" accesskey="N">Next</a></td> 96 </tr> 97 98 <tr> 99 <td width="33%" align="left" valign="top">First Printcap 100 Entry</td> 101 102 <td width="34%" align="center" valign="top"><a href= 103 "lprngclients.htm" accesskey="U">Up</a></td> 104 105 <td width="33%" align="right" valign="top">Force 106 Connection to Localhost</td> 107 </tr> 108 </table> 109 </div> 110 </body> 111</html> 112 113