printing 4.1 to 2.3
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Thanks to all who replied! This one was a little trickier than it
first appeared.
I was unable to print from SunOS 4.1.3 to Solaris 2.3. I described how
I added references to my new Solaris 2.3 print servers to the printcap
files on my SunOS 4.1.3 machines, and described the resulting errors.
There were 3 symptoms I was aware of:
1) lpstat -o on 4.1.3 machines got "lp: unknown printer <host>" errors, and
2) "waiting for queue to be enabled on <host>" errors
3) print jobs sent to 2.3 machines from 4.1.3 machines never got printed.
Errors (1) and (2) were because I set up the 4.1.3 printcap entry
incorrectly.
it said :rm=<host>,lp=<printer>:\
instead of : :rm=<host>,lp=,rp=<printer>:\
Lots of you caught that one! Once I fixed that, the lpstat output
looked OK, except that the jobs still didn't get out of the print
queue as shown on the 4.1.3 machine.
Turns out, and this is well documented on page 463 of the Solaris
System Administration class notes, that one must initialize each 2.3
server to listen at a TCP port for the print requests from the BSD
print clients. I wrote the attached script, then ran it once on each
2.3 print server, and I'm up and running. One minor problem: the
script doesn't handle the case where there's already a tcp listener in
place, and there was, so I had to "sacadm -r -p tcp" before running
it.
Kudus to Eric Stone at Fusion Systems, who was the first one to get
back to me with the right answer.
He also said I needed to do a "lpsystem -t bsd <client_hostname>" for
each 4.1.3 client, on each 2.3 server, but that doesn't appear to be
necessary, since I omitted that step, and am already able to print
without problems. Makes me nervous when things work without the
"necessary" steps, though...
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#!/bin/sh
usage() {
echo '
########################################################################
# FILE: lp_init_bsd_listener
#
# PURPOSE: Initialize BSD print request listener
#
# USAGE: lp_init_bsd_listener
#
# PARAMETERS: None.
#
# MODIFICATION HISTORY:
# 94/03/23, SK Hushing III. Original issue.
# Credit to Eric Stone at Fusion Systems.
########################################################################
'
exit
}
if [ "$1" = "help" ]; then usage; fi
#-----[ Display current state ]-----#
echo "CURRENT SACADM AND PMADM STATE:"
sacadm -l
pmadm -l
echo "BE WARY OF ANY EXISTING TCP LISTENER. PROCEED? \c"
read x
case $x in
y|Y)
;;
*)
echo "Aborted."
exit
;;
esac
#-----[ Initialize listener for BSD print requests ]-----#
echo "\nADDING BSD TCP LISTENER\n"
ver=`nlsadmin -V`
addr=`lpsystem -A`
sacadm -a -p tcp -t listen -c "/usr/lib/saf/listen tcp" -v $ver
pmadm -a -p tcp -s lpd -i root -v $ver -m `nlsadmin -o /var/spool/lp/fifos/listenBSD -A "\x$addr"`
#-----[ Display state after adding listener ]-----#
echo "NEW SACADM AND PMADM STATE:"
sacadm -l
pmadm -l
