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Operating Systems AIX network printer problem Post 302142441 by bakunin on Friday 26th of October 2007 07:34:37 AM
Old 10-26-2007
hmmm....

have you already checked the queue definitions and made sure the printqueue is configured properly on the PC? You haven't said it, but suppose your situation is as follows:

You have a printer, connected to the network. There is an AIX-machine in the same network on which a print queue is defined which is using the printer as queue device. Several PCs (running Win?) are on the network too and feed their printjobs to the AIX-queue.

How do they do that? are they using something like an lpr? And as this is a HP Jet-Direct card, why are the PCs not using *its* lpd but the lpd of the AIX-machine?

One test you could make is: if you know the printers (Jet-Direct cards) IP-adress issue a

telnet <printer-ip> 515

and watch what you see. You will of course get no real communication going but there should appear some banner message of the lpd daemon residing on the Jet-Direct card.

Could you please provide us with a queue definition from the AIX-machine. What is the output of /usr/bin/lsallq and what is the content of /etc/qconfig?

bakunin
 

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lpbanner

LPBANNER(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LPBANNER(1)

NAME

       lpbanner, pclbanner, psbanner - printer banners in text, PCL and PostScript

SYNOPSIS

       lpbanner  [ -llength ] [ -wwidth ] [ -Pprinter ] [ -Lbannername ] [ -nloginname ] [ -hhost ] [ -Jjobtitle ] [ -Cclass ] [ -?option args ] [
       all ]

DESCRIPTION

       The lpbanner program is used to print a simple banner on a fixed size font printer, the pclbanner program generates a PCL  banner  and  the
       psbanner  program  generates  a	PostScript banner.  All information to be printed is passed using command line arguements.  In order to be
       compatible with vintage line printer spoolers, reads a line form standard input, but ignores the information.

OPTIONS

       -w width
	    Page width in characters (default 132).

       -l length
	    Page length in lines (default 60).

       -P printer
	    printer queue for banner information.

       -L bannername
	    Name used on banner as main name.

       -n loginname
	    Name used on banner as login name.

       -h host
	    Name used on banner as host name.

       -J jobtitle
	    String used on banner as main title.

       -C class
	    String used on banner as class.

       -? value
	    All other options and arguments provided by LPRng are ignored.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       zero (0)       Successful completion.

       non-zero (!=0) An error occurred.

SEE ALSO

       lpd.conf(5), lpc(8), lpd(8), checkpc(8), lpr(1), lpq(1), lprm(1), printcap(5), lpd.conf(5), pr(1), lprng_certs(1), lprng_index_certs(1).

HISTORY

       LPRng is a enhanced printer spooler system  with  functionality	similar  to  the  Berkeley  LPR  software.   The  LPRng  mailing  list	is
       lprng@lprng.com;  subscribe by sending mail to lprng-request@lprng.com with the word subscribe in the body.  The software is available from
       ftp://ftp.lprng.com/pub/LPRng.

AUTHOR

       Patrick Powell <papowell@lprng.com>.

LPRng								    LPRng-3.9.0 						       LPBANNER(1)
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