debtron@cme.nist.gov (Debbie Nickerson) (11/10/90)
I have just recently started reading this newsgroup, so, if this has
already been discussed, please direct me to the archive.
The problem is this... How do you remove a print job that has been
initiated by the "net print" Sun PC-NFS command?
I know that the spool directory linked to the pcnfsd command on the
pcnfsd server is the t: drive on the pc, but the print job is only
there for a matter of seconds. It then gets shipped off to the
printers print server spool directory. (In our setup, the pcnfsd
server is not a print server.) Therefore, you cannot simply remove
the print job from the t: drive.
Another alternative would be to use "rsh" and remove the print job by
using "lprm"; but, the Sun OS 4.1 man page for lprm states:
"(Job ownership is determined by the user's login name and
host name on the machine where the "lpr" command was invoked)."
Which means that only the user on the machine that initiated the job
can remove it; thus, doing an "rsh host lprm job#" will not work since
your did not initiate the job on the host you are "rsh"ing into.
A couple of weeks ago I called Sun Support about this problem. Peter
Pack (spelling?) in the PC-NFS support group called me yesterday
informing me of the following patch for rpc.pcnfsd.c:
(The close statements are the patch.)
**** more stuff ****
close(0);
close(1);
close(2);
execlp("/usr/ucb/lpr",
**** more stuff ****
Before the patch, the ownership of the spool files initiated by
the pc thru pcnfs are owned by whoever is logged onto the console of
the pcnfsd server, usually root. This is supposed to force the ownership of
the spool files to be the owner sending the print job.
I tested the patch, and it did not solve the problem.
The problem is I believe, and I have told this to Peter Pack, is with
"lprm". Why does "lprm" need job ownership to be determined by BOTH user
and host?
Any help to solving this problem would be greatly appreciated. We
have users which tend to print large files and then want to remove
them from the print queue (paper conservation); the only way they can
do this is by getting in one of the system administrators to cancel
the print job.
Debbie Nickerson
(301) 975-3552
National Institute of Standards and Technology
debtron@cme.nist.gov debtron@cme.nist.gov (Debbie Nickerson) (11/15/90)
Ok, here's the scoop.... In addition to the patch I mentioned before, an entry must be made in the individual's SUN home account .rhosts to include the pc host name followed by the SUN username (i.e. zorf john). Also, the rsh host must be the pcnfsd server. Thanks to Peter Pack at SUN for the patch and the rsh host note. -Deborah A. Nickerson debtron@cme.nist.gov