eljazzar@utkux1.utk.edu (Mohamad El Jazzar) (04/19/91)
I am trying to access a PostScript printer attached to a VAX/VMS host. I know that the connection is not broken anywhere in the path because I can print PostScript files directly from the command line. However, when I try to print from within applications, nothin happens.. The entry in /etc/printcap for the said printer specifies it as a remote printer. Is there any other configuration that I should take care of before this works correctly? While on the same subject, is there any filter that can be used to print on an HP LaserJet II (connected to the same remote host as above)? Also, does the NeXT support the disk quotas concept? I am new to this whole issue, but would not mind mere pointers to information. Thanks.. and sorry if these subjects had been beaten to death before. I just have not been following up on this newsgroup for a long time (I'll try to keep up from now on.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mohamad El Jazzar Internet: eljazzar@utkux1.utk.edu U. of Tenn. Computing Center BITNET: eljazzar@utkvx Knoxville, Tennessee
cnh5730@maraba.tamu.edu (04/20/91)
In article <1991Apr19.045033.11609@cs.utk.edu> eljazzar@utkux1.utk.edu (Mohamad El Jazzar) writes:
The entry in /etc/printcap for the said printer specifies it as a remote
printer. Is there any other configuration that I should take care of
before this works correctly?
post the result of nidump printcat .
While on the same subject, is there any filter that can be used to print on
an HP LaserJet II (connected to the same remote host as above)?
no.
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Apparently I did not clarify a few points in my previous posting, so here is more info: I am trying to access printers attached to VAX/VMS system from a NexTStation through an intermediate system (call it host1) that is authorized to us the VMS queues. The NeXT is listed in host1's /etc/hosts.lpd, so authorization is not a problem. Also, the /etc/printcap entries on the NeXT specify host1 as a remote host for the printers that I'm trying to access. niload was later used to update the NetInfo database. Now, I can use lpr from a shell window with no problems at all. However, whenever I try to print from within applications, I do not get anywhere. All I get is the following error message (by mail): Your printer job was not printed because it was not linked to the original file I tried to trace the problem by disabling queueing and printing on the various queues, and it seems that the problem is between the NeXT and the intermediate host. I could not find any reference to this error message, so I don't know where to go to next.. any comments are welcome.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mohamad El Jazzar Internet: eljazzar@utkux1.utk.edu U. of Tenn. Computing Center BITNET: eljazzar@utkvx Knoxville, Tennessee