SUMMARY: remote print server

From: Christopher M. Chin (chris@Advent.COM)
Date: Thu Feb 06 1997 - 22:42:48 CST


Thanks to Viet Hoang (vhoang@lucent.com), who reminded
me that I needed to put the new host in the print
server's /etc/hosts.lpd file.

 - Christopher

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On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Christopher M. Chin wrote:

> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:40:44 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Christopher M. Chin" <chris@Advent.COM>
> To: Sun Managers Mailing List <sun-managers@ra.mcs.anl.gov>
> Subject: remote print server
>
> Hi fellow sun managers,
>
> Maybe it's the flu I'm just getting over, but I can't
> seem to figure out what I'm missing here.
>
> I have several Solaris machines printing to a SunOS
> 4.1.3 print server, and things work well. I'm adding a
> new Solaris (2.5.1) machine, and can't seem to get
> printing going.
>
> I get the following message (via e-mail) when trying
> to send print jobs to the default printer:
>
> ----------------------
>
> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 16:20:07 -0800
> From: Line Printer Admin <lp@Advent.COM>
> Subject: Status of lp request HP-5
>
> Your request HP-5 destined for HP
>
> The job title was: 5-1
> submitted from: gondor
> at: Thu Feb 6 16:20:07 1997
>
> was canceled by the lpsched daemon.
>
> Reason for failure:
>
> Remote status=5, canceled by remote system
>
>
>
> Reason for being canceled:
>
> Error talking to printer or print server, possibly down
>
> ----------------------
>
> The configuration (via admintool) is identical to that
> of a machine that prints to this server successfully.
>
> I've verified that .rhosts and host file info is
> accurate, and I've also restarted lpsched on the client
> and lpd on the server. No luck. What am I missing?
>
> Thanks,
> - Christopher
>
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> Christopher M. Chin (415) 543-7696 (voice)
> Senior Network Administrator (415) 896-1327 (fax)
> Advent Software, Inc.
> 301 Brannan Street chris@Advent.COM
> San Francisco, CA 94107-1849
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