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- From: aldrich@leland.Stanford.EDU (Jeff Aldrich)
- Subject: can't print to sparcprinter from remote hosts
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.191604.23393@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Keywords: sparcprinter, newsprint
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: Stanford University
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 19:16:04 GMT
- Lines: 80
-
- I am in a state of total confusion with a SPARCprinter installation.
- I have a (hopefully) vanilla setup consisting of Sun printer, NP 2.0
- and OW3 on an IPX running 4.1.1b. It works fine.
-
- The print host is one of several NIS clients that are configured in a
- similar manner. None of the other clients in this domain is able to
- print to the SPARCprinter. However, all of these clients are able to
- print to any of several other printing devices via rm/rp on a
- different server. All of these other printers are LaserWriters on
- LocalTalk net, not directly connected to a UNIX host.
-
- One other machine in the local domain *is* able to print to the Sp: it
- is the NIS master, and also the spooling host for all other printers.
- Printcap isn't part of the NIS maps in this domain.
-
- Spooldir organization is of the form /var/spool/lpd/<printer_name> on
- all machines except for the Sp spooling host, where there is a link
- /var/spool/lpd/leroy -> /usr1/spool/lpd/leroy. Setup to accomodate the newly-arrived printer was the same on all machines, limited to creating
- the local spool dir, editing /etc/printcap, and restarting lpd.
-
- Local printcap entry:
-
- leroy|Leroy|LEROY|leroy, a SPARCprinter:\
- :lp=/dev/lpvi0:\
- :sd=/usr1/spool/lpd/leroy:\
- :lf=/usr1/spool/lpd/leroy/log:\
- :af=/usr1/spool/lpd/leroy/acct:\
- :if=/usr/newsprint/lpd/if:\
- :gf=/usr/newsprint/lpd/gf:\
- :nf=/usr/newsprint/lpd/nf:\
- :tf=/usr/newsprint/lpd/tf:\
- :rf=/usr/newsprint/lpd/rf:\
- :vf=/usr/newsprint/lpd/vf:\
- :cf=/usr/newsprint/lpd/cf:\
- :df=/usr/newsprint/lpd/df:\
- :of=/usr/newsprint/lpd/of:\
- :mx#0:\
- :sf:\
- :sh:
-
- Remote printcap entry, identical on all machines:
-
- leroy|Leroy|LEROY|leroy, a SPARCprinter:\
- :lp=:rm=sprocket:rp=leroy:sd=/var/spool/lpd/leroy:\
- :lf=/var/spool/lpd/leroy/errs:
-
- This works on a 4/330 NIS server running SunOS 4.1.1, and fails on
- 4/{40,50,65,75,260,670MP} clients running SunOS 4.{1,1.1,1.1b,1.2}.
- The failure mode: a print job's cf and df files are placed in
- /var/spool/lpd, and not in /var/spool/lpd/leroy. Once there, they are
- recognized by lpq and removable with lprm, but are never shipped off
- to the printer host.
-
- Lots of more-or-less silly attempts to remedy include manually
- depositing the cf and df files where they ought to be, redirecting all
- print jobs to the 4/330 that *is* able to use the printer, checking
- and adjusting permissions and ownerships everywhere, trying
- alternative release levels of lpr and lpd, reducing printcap to a
- single entry referring to the SPARCprinter, and so on and on and on.
- So why does lpr (I guess) insist on using its default spooling dir,
- instead of the one defined in the printcap? Why does lpq inform me
- that there is no daemon present, when in fact there is?
-
- As further grist, probably related but I don't know how: after
- rebooting two of the clients-that-can't-print, lpc on those two hosts
- informs me that every single printer *except* the new SPARCprinter is
- "unknown". These two machines are a 4/65-4.1 and a 4/670-4.1.2. Both
- machines continue unable to print to the SPARCprinter, of course.
-
- Although I'm reasonably certain that, after having been examined by
- two independent judges for over six hours, at least permissions and
- ownerships are correct, I would be happy to provide further info in
- that regard to anyone who thinks it might be interesting. Ditto
- checksums, dates of manufacture, etc., for relevant binaries, output
- from trace, whatever. Thanks, in profusion, for any insight.
-
- ................................................
- Jeff Aldrich <aldrich@sunrise.Stanford.EDU>
- R&D Engineer Center for Design Research
- Stanford University
-