Conference kernel::unix_printing

937.0. "HPUX remote print to Digital Unix failed" by HGOSPS::MICKWIDLAM () Tue Apr 15 1997 08:03

    I hope this is the right place to ask.
    
    I have a customer connected a printer to an Alpha with Unix V3.2G. The
    printcap was defined and can print successfully. She then added a
    remote print queue on another Alpha with V3.2G. The remote print was
    successful from that Alpha.
    
    Then, she did the same job on a HPUX system so that it can remote print
    to the Alpha with connected with the print. She failed on this. From
    Unix, she found that the spool directory contained the print job file
    but lpc status showed nothing queued. Also no error logged on the error
    file.
    
    I don't know if HPUX is running System V and if this is a possible
    problem. Someone told me that he remembered there is some kind of
    naming convention difference in spool directory between System V and
    BSD.
    
    Anyone got idea on this?
    
    Regards,
    Mickwid.

    
    If I remember, the datafile / control file hasn't the same filename synthax
    as expected between System V / BSD.
    ie not "dfA009hostname" and "cfA009hostname" like DU.
    
      => I think you can configure it on the hpux, saying it's a BSD printer..
    
	Hope this help,
    
    Manuel.
                                                 

Yes, HP uses a 4 digit sequence number, so the file names on a HP system would
be something like dfA0001hostname, instead of the dfA001hostname on digital 
UNIX. The use of the 4 digit sequence number is not compliant with the RFC1179
print protocol, so they should have some way to configure the HP system to
send
print jobs in a way that complies with the standard. I don't have an HP system
where I can check this out, so my guesses on exactly what HP does may be a
bit incorrect..

Rich.
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