DHASKIN%CLARKU.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (10/06/88)
'morning... I'm having some difficulty setting up a remote printer between two nodes on our network and am hoping someone else may have struggled with it already. In this case the local node is a Sun 3/60 named (oddly enough) sun360 and the remote node (with the printer) is a MicroVAX II named nymph. Sun360 is running SunOS version 3 and nymph is running Ultrix 2.3. The printer on nymph is LAT printer but it behaves quite well when used locally on nymph; I did everything the Ultrix doc set said to do. The printcap file is: # @(#)printcap 3.2 (ULTRIX) 4/13/87 lp0|lp|ln03b|laser printer on LAT:\ :lp=/dev/tty04:\ :ts=GUS:\ :op=LN03B:\ :sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\ :if=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/ln03of:\ :of=/usr/lib/lpdfilters/ln03of:\ :pw#80:\ :pl#66:\ :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs: Everything in the documentation leads me to believe that I can set up a queue on the Sun to spool files via the queue on nymph, so I set it up; here is the printcap from sun360: # # typical remote printer entry # ucbvax|vax|vx|ucbvax line printer:\ # :lp=:rm=ucbvax:rp=lp0:sd=/usr/spool/vaxlpd:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs: lp0|lp|ln03b|Laser printer via Nymph:\ :lp=:rm=nymph:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs: However, when I lpr something on the sun360 it goes to the local queue fine but nothing happens after that. A lpq command yields the following output: no entries sun360: Warning: lp is down: waiting for queue to be enabled on nymph sun360: Warning: no daemon present Rank Owner Job Files Total Size 1st denis 5 .cshrc 44 bytes Can anyone shed some light on the situation? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated. aTdHvAaNnKcSe, Denis