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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Adding a network printer Post 51054 by Optimus_P on Monday 10th of May 2004 09:38:57 AM
Old 05-10-2004
personaly i didnt use hp jetadmin. (i believe it is also discontinued from hp)

dont use admintool to add a remote printer. make sure you are useing lpadmin.

Code:
# lpstat -p hpqgait-01 -l
printer hpqgait-01 unknown state. enabled since May 10 08:38 2004. available.
        Remote Name: hpqgait-01
        Remote Server: 10.40.10.52
JetDirect lpd: no jobs queued on this port

 

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rlpstat(1M)															       rlpstat(1M)

NAME
rlpstat - print status of LP spooler requests on a remote system SYNOPSIS
printer] user] [id]... DESCRIPTION
reports the status of the specified jobs or all requests associated with the specified users on the specified printer. At least one id or the name of a printer must be specified. For each request submitted (by command -- see lp(1)) reports the request ID, user's name, total size of the request, date of the request, and, if it is being transferred, the device. This command is intended to be used only by the spool system in response to the command and should not be invoked directly (see lpstat(1)). Options recognizes the following options and command-line arguments: Status is requested on the specified printer. Status is requested on all requests for the user who executed the command on the specified printer (see the option). You can repeat the option to specify more users. The maximum number of users that can be specified is 50. id Status is requested on the specified request IDs (as returned by All the request IDs must be for the same printer. The maximum number of request IDs that can be specified is 50. AUTHOR
was developed by the University of California, Berkeley, and HP. FILES
SEE ALSO
enable(1), lp(1), lpadmin(1M), lpsched(1M), lpstat(1), rcancel(1M), rlp(1M), rlpdaemon(1M). rlpstat(1M)
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