obrennan@CC3.CC.UMR.EDU (obrennan) (12/14/90)
Hi netters,
I have a problem in printing from a remote system (eg. vax or convex)
to an Apollo running SR10.2/BSD4.3. The print server is on an Apollo running SR10.2.
I have already filled in the /etc/hosts.equiv file with the name of the remote station.
When I call lpr from the remote host, I get the following message from the spool node
of Apollo system at /usr/adm/lpd-errs:
Nov 24 11:18:12 t1a lpd[1228]: cannot find device 1222352, 1
and it always has the same device number which doesn't exists.
The messages that come from the remote hosts when I do lpq is that t1a is down
and waiting for t1a to come up. As a result, the jobs queue forever.
The /etc/printcap file is correctly set to the best of my knowledge.
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Azman Baharom
azman@mimos.ism.my
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We have done the same at SR10.2 by creating /etc/hosts.lpd (can't use +, must have entries for
each node allowed) and it works fine. We have however had problems with some of the files
being partially printed; we have narrowed it down to a BSD print support problem because the
file prints fine when using PRF directly.
Interestingly enough, our partial printing problem went away at SR10.3, but guess what, we
then couldn't print from remote locations (access denied).
Here is our printcap for the SR10.2 server:
ccpost|M/CS 116 Central Distributions HP Laserjet Postscript:\
:pc=/com/prf -pr ccpost -npag -trans -headers off -banner off:\
:lp=/dev/null:sh:sf:\
:sd=//cc1/usr/spool/lpd/ccpost:\
:if=//cc1/usr/spool/lpd/postscript.filter:
Remember the partial file problem however. I am going to try applying a patch. I will post
to the net if the patch is successful...
Gerry O'Brennan
Programmer/Analyst II
Computing Services
University of Missouri - Rolla
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