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Operating Systems Solaris Network printing solaris 2.5.1 Post 302149416 by Goodfellas on Thursday 6th of December 2007 03:53:03 AM

12-06-2007

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Network printing solaris 2.5.1

Hello guys,

I'm having a problem at configuring an HP printer for solaris 2.5.1. Unfortunatly solaris did not support network printing until 2.6.x so i had to use jetadmin, wich suprisingly worked well the verry first time i installed the package.

Allthough the sparcstation witch i'm using is pretty old ('96), this version of jetadmin was even older ('93). So no wonder my network printer wasn't supported and as a result i could only print text files.

I decided to upgrade, and after removing the old version i installed the last available version from HP United States - Computers, Laptops, Servers, Printers & more. wich dates from '00. All of this went smoothly using the pdf reamde supplied with jetadmin and again i was able to install the printer fairly easy.

But when i tried to add the printer to the spooler i was amazed to find that the driverlist still wasn't up to date. I found a history of HP printers and could see that my printer has had several different names in the past, but none of them was in the list given by jetadmin.

The new version gives me an extra feature so i can download an updated drivers list, but unfortunatly i need to enter a proxy-name. I used the proxy used by my company and typed: "tsnlisa", just as in my iexplorer6. It didnt work so now im stuck with a verry outdated driver list, and i'm unable to plot graphics from my printer.

Since the new printercontract, im not allowed to go back to my old printer and now im stuck wit my hp 4005n wich i'm unable to confige in jetadmin.

Can anybody tell me how to update the drivers, or give me another solution?

Kind regards

Goodfellas

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enable

enable(1)							   User Commands							 enable(1)

NAME

       enable, disable - enable/disable LP printers

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/enable printer...

       /usr/bin/disable [-c | -W]  [ -r [reason]] printer...

DESCRIPTION

       The  enable  command  activates	printers,  enabling  them to print requests submitted by the lp command. enable must be run on the printer
       server.

       The disable command deactivates printers, disabling them from printing requests submitted by the lp command. By default, any requests  that
       are  currently  printing  on printer will be reprinted in their entirety either on printer or another member of the same class of printers.
       The disable command must be run on the print server.

       Use lpstat -p to check the status of printers.

       enable and disable only effect queueing on the print server's spooling system. Executing these commands from a client system will  have	no
       effect on the server.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported for use with disable:

       -c	       Cancels	any requests that are currently printing on printer. This option cannot be used with the -W option. If the printer
		       is remote, the -c option will be silently ignored.

       -W	       Waits until the request currently being printed is finished before disabling printer. This option cannot be used  with  the
		       -c option. If the printer is remote, the -W option will be silently ignored.

       -r [reason]     Assigns	a  reason  for	the  disabling	of  the  printer(s). This reason applies to all printers specified. This reason is
		       reported by lpstat -p. Enclose reason in quotes if it contains blanks. The default  reason  is  "unknown  reason"  for  the
		       existing printer, and "new printer" for a printer added to the system but not yet enabled.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported for both enable and disable:

       printer	       The  name of the printer to be enabled or disabled. Specify printer using atomic name. See printers.conf(4) for information
		       regarding the naming conventions for atomic names.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	       Successful completion.

       non-zero        An error occurred.

FILES

       /var/spool/lp/*	       LP print queue.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWpcu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       lp(1), lpstat(1), printers.conf(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    9 Sep 1996								 enable(1)