Conference turris::digital_unix

9505.0. "Remote printing problem initiated from a HPUX" by HGOVC::CHRISTSANG () Tue Apr 15 1997 08:43

    Hello,
    
    We have countered a remote printing problem from an HP-UX machine
    sending print jobs to a Digital Unix machine over LAN.
    
    The HP UX is version 10.01A. The Digital Unix is 3.2G. On the DU
    machine, a printer name 'dp81_1' is already setup. When the command
    "lpstat -t" is run, the followings is displayed :
    
    dp81_1:
        printer is on device '/dev/tty08' speed 19200
        queuing is enabled
        printing is disabled
        no entries
        no daemon present
    
    The printing is purposely disabled so that there is no paper out in
    this testing.
    
    And running 'ps -ef' on the DU, the 'lpd' is present :
    
        /usr/il8n/lbin/lpd 
    
    The '/etc/hosts.lpd' is present on the DU with the following entries :
    
        *
        10.18.18.75             hquxdt03
        10.28.28.210            hquxdt04
        hquxap11
    
    Note that 'hquxdt03' is the HPUX machine.
    
    With the above setup, when a remote print is initiated from another DU
    machine on the LAN using the command 'lp -ddp81_1 <filename>', it works
    fine. I can use 'lpstat -t' to confirm that the print job is present.
    
    However, from the HPUX machine, when the same command is executed 'lp
    -ddp81_1 <filename>', it is found that the print job is sent ok to the
    DU machine. I can find that the file being printed is received on the
    DU machine in the directory 'usr/spool/lpd1'. BUT this file is not
    shown by the 'lpstat -t' command and it is not printed out.
    
    Is there a way to resolve this ?
    
    Please advise.
    
    
    
    Best regards
    Chris

    I would expect that that spool directory would contain both a "df" file
    (the actual data to be printed) and a "cf" file containing information
    to be printed on the banner, how many copies to print, etc etc.
    
    Compare the cf file produced by HP-UX with the DIGITAL UNIX cf file, to
    see if there are any significant differences.
    
    Just a thought
    
    	leon

Also, check the lpr.log error log files. You can find where lpr.log is
located in the /etc/syslog.conf file.

I think that HP uses some non-standard extensions to the rfc1179 print
protocol. Does the HP system have a way to configure their print system
to only use a standard rfc1179-conforming protocol? It should.

Rich Hart.
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