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Operating Systems SCO Only root can print Post 302073026 by sunsharma on Tuesday 9th of May 2006 04:24:06 PM
Old 05-09-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by randyd
Be sure to change authorizations for the users to have "lp" and "printerstat" authorization - can be done through SCOADMIN

Found an answer to this question after looking for few days. Real issue banner page need to be set up No banner. Number of banners zero does not mean no banner. Following details did the trick for me on SCo openserver 5.0.7.

Non-root user cannot print to spooled printers , but the same non-root user CAN print from UNIX.

Solution:
The printer definition is set to "Banner required". To determine if the printer requires a banner, do the following:

login as root

Enter: lpstat -l -p <printer name>

One of the lines will be "Banner required" or "Banner not required"

printer lp is idle. enabled since Thu Apr 10 09:37:42 1997. available.
Form mounted:
Content types: simple
Printer type: unknown
Description:
Connection: direct
Interface: /usr/spool/lp/model/standard
On fault: mail to root once
After fault: continue
Users allowed:
(all)
Forms allowed:
(all)
** Banner required
Number of banners printed: 1
Character sets:
(none)
Default pitch:
Default page size: 200 wide 66 long
Default port settings:

To change the banner setting:

Enter: /usr/lib/lpadmin -p<printer name> -o nobanner

Enter: lpstat -lp <printer name>

It should now display "Banner not required" As soon as this is done Printer Prints
 

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NPRINT(1)							      nprint								 NPRINT(1)

NAME
nprint - NetWare print client SYNOPSIS
nprint [ -S server ] [ -h ] [ -U username | -n ] [ -C ] [ -q queuename ] [ -d job-description ] [ -p pathname-in-banner ] [ -B username-in- banner ] [ -s ] [ -f filename-in-banner ] [ -l lines ] [ -r rows ] [ -c copies ] [ -t tab size ] [ -T ] [ -N ] [ -F form-number ] filename DESCRIPTION
With nprint, you can print files on print queues of a NetWare file server. There are a lot of options, so you should probably wrap some default configurations into some shell scripts. nprint looks up the file $HOME/.nwclient to find a file server, a user name and possibly a password. See nwclient(5) for more information. Please note that the access permissions of .nwclient MUST be 600, for security reasons. OPTIONS
filename filename is the name of the file you want to print. If file is '-', or no filename is given, standard input is used. -h -h is used to print out a short help text. -S server server is the name of the server you want to use. -U username username is the user name to use for the print request at the server. -P password password is the password to use for the print request at the server. If neither -n nor -P are given, and the user has no open connec- tion to the server, nprint prompts for a password. -n -n should be given if no password is required for the print request. -C By default, passwords are converted to uppercase before they are sent to the server, because most servers require this. You can turn off this conversion by -C. -q queuename queuename is the name of the print queue to use at the print server. At present, you must specify it in upper case characters. -d job-description job-description is the string that appears in pconsole when you list the jobs for the print queue. It will also appear in the "Descrip- tion" field on the banner page. -p pathname-in-banner pathname-in-banner is the string (up to 79 characters) you want to be printed in the "Directory" field on the banner page. -B username-in-banner username-in-banner is the string (up to 12 characters) you want to appear on the lower part of the banner page. It will also appear in the "User name" field. -s Supress printing of banner page -f filename-in-banner filename-in-banner is the string (up to 12 characters) you want to appear in large letters on the lower part of the banner page. Default: the name of the file that is printed, or 'stdin'. -l lines lines is the number of lines to put on one page. Default: 66. -r rows rows is the number of rows to put on one page. Default: 80. -c copies copies tells the print server to the specified number of copies. Default: 1. -t tabs tabs is the number of spaces to print for a Tab-Character. Default: 8. -T tells the print server to expand Tab-Character and use 8 spaces -N tells the print server not to use Form Feeds -F form-number form-number is the the number of the form to be put into the printer. If it's different from the one currently in the printer, your job is only printed if a printer operator has put in the correct form. NOTES
The '-B' option was formerly '-b'. But it conflicted with 'bindery only' login option. SEE ALSO
nwclient(5), slist(1), pqlist(1), ncpmount(8), ncpumount(8) CREDITS
nprint was written by Volker Lendecke (lendecke@math.uni-goettingen.de) nprint 12/27/1995 NPRINT(1)
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