AIX

Hi

Initially our printers are directly connected to SAA. But now connections to the printers go through a VPN. Therefore it is necessary to modify the IPs declared on the server to go through the NATTED adress corresponding to the VPN, instead of the real address of the printer.

We got a list of new IP addresses which has to be updated in the /etc/qconfig file by replacing the old IP addresses.

Also I found that qdaemon is running in the server. My doubt is that will it impact anything if I edit the /etc/qconfig file?

Most probably (and hopefully!) editing the /etc/qconfig file will "impact anything" because otherwise the file would be superfluous, no?

Edit the file, then stop and empty all the queues. Restart the queueing system to read in the new configuration.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

Thanks bakunin.

Can you please let me know the commands to ge given after editing the /etc/qconfig file.

AIX maintains several parallel command frontends (Sys-V-like, BSD-like, AIX-own) to the printing system and you can use any of them. See the man page of (my personal favourite) qadm for how to restart the print queues.

For the really daring there is still the "classical" way of sending a kill -1 to the queue manager to make it read in the new configuration. Last time i checked this worked too, but in all honesty i haven't had anything to do with printing in AIX in years - AIX makes for a very poor print server, IMHO.

I hope this helps.

bakunin