Summary - Re: Solaris 8 printing problem

Thanks to Dave Foster and Kevin Buterbaugh who reminded me to make sure
that the printer tcp line in inetd.conf was not commented out.

Patricia Max
Los Alamos National Laboratory

> From pam Mon Oct 14 11:13:05 2002
> To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
> Subject: Solaris 8 printing problem
> 
> 
> Hardware: Sun Ultra-5_10
> Software: Solaris 5.8 Generic_108528-16
> Printer: HP Lasrjet 8000DN
> Printer: Configured using the hpnp software
> Contents of /etc/printers.conf
> 
> #
> #	If you hand edit this file, comments and structure may change.
> #	The preferred method of modifying this file is through the use of
> #	lpset(1M)
> #
> _default:\
> 	:use=t3hp8000:
> t3hp8000:\
> 	:bsdaddr=printsrv,t3hp8000,Solaris:\
> 	:description=printer in 200/233
> 
> 
> When the printer is configured on a Solaris 7 system, it prints from
> both solaris 7 and solaris 8 systems.
> 
> When the printer is configured on a Solaris 8 system, it will not print
> from any solaris 7 or solaris 8 machines.  lpstat -t on the client
> machine responds with the mesage 
> 
> server printsrv not responding
> 
> So somehow the job is not being shipped from the client machine to
> the print server.
> 
> The system software on the print server was installed, not upgraded.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Patricia Max
> Los Alamos National Laboratory
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