Cups has been removed from the s10 10 08 u6 companion cd, due to legal restritions on the berkeley db package. Oct 26, 20 the common unix printing system cups has integrated into oracle solaris and is now the default print service, replacing the lp print service. Printing using lpd is fast, but when we try socket or smb, it is painfully slow oct 05, 2006. The book covers a broad range of solaris system administration topics such as managing user accounts, diskless clients, booting a system, using the service management facility smf, and managing software and patches. If you have difficulties installing or using the product, please join the users mailing list to get a helping hand. Continue reading configuring a solaris 10 client to print. For configuring and enabling cups with solaris 10, see my blog article at.
The printer server is used by many clients, macos, windows and solaris. In my futile efforts to get solaris printing to canon printers working, i have installed a linux cups print server after also failing to get cups working right on solaris i am now printing basic documents to the canon from the linux print server, however, i need to print from my solaris clients. If someone could throw some light, it would be of great help. Cups print manager gui you can access the gui from the oracle solaris desktop, which includes gnome 2. Esp made the use of cups printing on solaris a breeze. While we can take the files and push them to the printer from the rhel7 host using lp commands, we cannot get the same results from the solaris 8 client. How to troubleshoot printer problems cups in solaris 11. Starting with the oracle solaris 11 release, the lp print service is removed. The cups drivers with zebra printer support are included in some linux distributions and mac os x 10. Go to the oracle java archive page thank you for downloading this release of the java tm platform, standard edition development kit jdk tm. The contour shapes bring focus to the center of the plate accentuating the food being served, while the handles and amuse bouche add an element of casual elegance. A detailed list of changes can be found in the change log included in the download. Apr 20, 2018 moving forward with solaris 10 extended support, the decision has been made to continue to update the recommended patchsets thru the solaris 10 extended support period. Solaris 10 companion cd download unzip the iso file.
Solaris 10 extended support will run thru january 2021. Cups troubleshooting howto by kurt pfeifle openprinting. It removes all the relevant sun packages, installs the csw cups packages and for all cups binaries places symlinks in usrbin. Configure postgresql database on solaris 10 occassionally you may need to setup database remotely on nonwindows o. Enter a program name, such as, gcc, or a keyword like editor. Brightq pro for canon usa imagerunner linux and unix. Solaris 11 transitioned to using cups for its main print engine. Troubleshootingcupsandaskingforhelp howto a guide for the desperate. How to configure cups in solaris 10 x86 and sparc oracle. Get started download packages packages see full software list. For information on installing using the native solaris pkg format, see section 2. When chef infra client runs, it will bring the node into the expected state and prevent configuration drift. For example, if you are compiling cups on red hat enterprise linux 6, you will need to provide the without systemd option since that distribution does not use systemd.
Esp is not longer around and i would still like to use cups. Zebras technical support staff can offer limited assistance by providing documentation and escalating issues to the cups developers for investigation when used on the platforms listed below. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 11 host. Cups uses the internet printing protocol ipp to support printing to local and network printers. Cups driver for mac, linux, or unix zebra printers. Where to download sun solaris 10 sparc 64bit installation cd. How to configure cups in solaris 10 x86 and sparc soory jan 23, 2012 3. Where can i get a recent cups binary package for solaris 10. As its name implies, cups is designed to run on the unix operating system, however the cups. By joining our community you will have the ability to post topics, receive our newsletter, use the advanced search, subscribe to threads and access many other special features. Cups software administrators manual apple open source.
This book is for anyone who is responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris operating system os. Here is a description on how to get cups printing going on solaris 10. Install and uninstall on oracle solaris 11 reflection for. Setting up and administering printers by using cups tasks. Cups is a modular printing system that enables a system to function both as a print server and a print client. Download the driver for your specific printer model. For people who wish to completely replace the solaris printing system with cups, the following snippet is an example of how this can be done. The distribution is a point of integration for several current projects on, including those to make the installation experience easier, to modernise the look and feel of opensolaris on the desktop, and to introduce a networkbased package management system into solaris. Solaris, and most appls that run under solaris, expect a postscript printer. Make sure that you know for sure which level of solaris you are using by looking at the etcrelease file on your system.
Solaris 10 update 807 has been released and available for download. Does anybody know of any documentation of setting cups up on solaris 10 10 09. Introduction to cups oracle solaris administration. From the directory that contains the extracted files, run the pkgmogrify command using the syntax shown here. The jdk is a development environment for building applications, applets, and components using the java programming language. Configuring hp laserjet 9050dn network printer with sun. I have configured nfs shares on my machine solaris 10 5. Jan 27, 2015 the common unix printing system cups has integrated into oracle solaris and is now the default print service, replacing the lp print service. Before you can export the printers you must download the cups drivers for windows from the cups. The latest update of the solaris os helps customers alleviate common enterprise problems such as virtualization, resource management, and system performance.
Its probably really easy for an experienced systems administrator but there were a few gotchas that caught me out hopefully my experiences will help someone else out. Configuring a solaris 10 client to print to a network printer. Configure postgresql database on solaris 10 ecava igx web. Jan 20, 2006 for weeks now, ive been trying to configure my solaris client to print to a networkattached hp laserjet 2200dn printer and i finally got it working today. Using cups print server for solaris 10 oracle solaris blog.
Install printer driver from hp support site and not the windows 10 generic one. Setting up your printing environment to work with cups oracle. It is available in opensolaris as package sunwcups and for s10 you may be able to use the sfwcups from an earlier version of the companion cd, or download from blastwave, or download source from cups. Files are created on the client solaris 8 server and used to print through a cups 1. Printing from solaris to remote cups server solutions. A system that is running cups becomes a host that can. Brightq pro provides native postscript device drivers for the linux, solaris, aix, hpux and freebsd operating systems. Create solaris zone printsrvsetup cups server and printerssetup windows 7. Chef infra client is an agent that runs locally on every node that is under management by chef infra. Migration to an oracle solaris zone on an oracle solaris 10 host. There were a total of 24 solaris 10 patches, including kernel updates, and 4 patchsets released on mos. If you have difficulties installing or using the product, please join the users mailing list to. Cups processes for cups to manage your printing environment, you must first create a print queue under cups. Analysis of the oracle solaris configuration, including networking, storage, and oracle solaris operating system features in use.
The hp photosmart c4400 is a series of printers that includes 11 different models. Hello all, i am facing a wierd problem with the samba 3. Installing cups on solaris 10 1106 x86 platform, i found that the freeware printing bundle aka cups printing suite bundle provided on the solaris 10. Im having a problem finding recent versions of the cups binary packages for solaris 10 the best ive found so far is version 1. However, you can download oracle solaris studio for free. First of all am not sure if this combination works well. The default and only available print service in oracle solaris 11 is cups. Starting from version 10, the solaris licence changed and the product. The server and software company begins offering solaris 10 as a free download for those who register. Scott lynn put together a very informative blog on solaris 10. Mysql mysql and solaris 2 installing mysql on solaris. Sep 12, 2007 solaris 10 update 807 has been released and available for download.
This means customers that purchase solaris 10 extended support get the benefit of continued recommended patchset updates, as patches that meet the criteria for inclusion in the. Replace the sample paths for sysconfdir and prefix with the installation directories of your choice. Sun has released solaris 10 cds for free usage download. Postinstallation and customization solaris x86 faq dan. Does anybody know of any documentation of setting cups up on solaris 10 1009. Solaris delivers builtin investment protection and new technologies that are even better suited to data intensive environments where price. In the past i have use cups printing from esp easy software products, which i think was bought by apple.