phatak@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Dhananjay S Phatak) (08/17/90)
We have a Decstation 3100 with a mips risc cpu, running ultrix 3.1 . The lpd daemon on the system seems to have a lot of problems. The original demon (139264 bytes) was replaced by a new version almost double the size (279192 bytes) during the ultrix-decnet print server client software isntallation. This new demon can communicate only with the lps40 via decnet, it cannot handle any remote ques. It simply keeps giving the message "warning no demon present" and the files supposed to be shipped to the remote machines just sit in the local spool directories for ever. I tried everything i could, with lpr, lpc, lpd, printcap, and and the corresponding man pages. "Guide to system environment setup" has a chapter on printer setup but it did not help. Then I copied lpd demons from a couple of other machines with identical cpus (executables). They did solve the remote printing problem, but they cannot communicate with the lps40. Is there is a way to achieve both printing to lps40 via decnet and remote printing ? Please reply by e-mail to phatak@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu. or phatak@umaecs thanks.
grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) (08/19/90)
In article <1143@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu> phatak@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Dhananjay S Phatak) writes: > > We have a Decstation 3100 with a mips risc cpu, running ultrix 3.1 . > The lpd daemon on the system seems to have a lot of problems. The > original demon (139264 bytes) was replaced by a new version almost > double the size (279192 bytes) during the ultrix-decnet print server > client software isntallation. This new demon can communicate only with > the lps40 via decnet, it cannot handle any remote ques. It simply keeps > giving the message "warning no demon present" and the files supposed to > be shipped to the remote machines just sit in the local spool directories > for ever. I tried everything i could, with lpr, lpc, lpd, printcap, and > and the corresponding man pages. "Guide to system environment setup" has > a chapter on printer setup but it did not help. Make sure you have an error logfile defined and see what kind of silly messages are accumulating. We use the LPS20 decnet software, I vaguely remember having to change a few previously default parameters in the printcap entries before it would work normally. -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)