SUMMARY: Remote printing trouble on Solaris 2.4

From: Michael Baker (mbaker@mako.cp.tybrin.com)
Date: Mon May 08 1995 - 07:37:47 CDT


>Gene Loriot (epl@kodak.com) writes:
>Sun suggest total analiation... here is a script that I built from sun's suggest
>ions. When you are thrown into vi, delete all but the line that that is
>repeated in the comment section that says *don't* delete this line....and
>rebuild the printers. Has worked in every case I can think of.
>
I tried this solution, to no avail, the printers were still faulting
 
>Michael Ramchand Owner (mpr@relay.fj-icl.com) writes:
>Sun is effectively EOLing the s5 printing model. If you define the remote printer as a bsd host it will work.
>
>i.e. Just do
>
>lpsystem -t bsd <host>
>
>then lpshut, and /usr/lib/lpsched the spooler on both machines, printing should
>then work properly.
 
I tried this and struck magic, once the print server was defined as bsd and the
print services restarted on both hosts, everything worked fine.
 
 
Original message:
 
>After upgrading our machines to Solaris 2.4 the remote printing
>from a 2.4 machine to a 2.4 machine stopped working. The printer
>status returns faulted, system not responding. Printing to bsd
>based remote printers works fine and printing to the local printer
>works fine as well.
>
>I've checked the status of lpNet and lpsched on both machines
>and it makes it look like it should be a listener problem, but
>after checking the listeners via pmadm -l, it looks like they're
>fine too.
>
>Just to check, I've even rebuilt the printers on both the remote
>and local system. It didn't change a thing.
>
>I have applied the lp jumbo patch, 101959-03, on both systems.
>
>Any suggestions or pointers would be highly appreciated.
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