Can't print to HP Printserver
Nash Computer Technology
5.0.5 system. There are no other printers installed on the system. I
followed the SCO instructions to configure HP printing including setting up
BOOTP and assigning the spooler. I then rebooted, and was able to ping the
print server. However, when I print to the printer (printer1) the job just
sits in the queue with status "printing". Printer1 is shown as a "Local"
printer on /dev/null and I've tried various printer "models" including
"standard" and "dumb". When I print, the activity light on the jetdirect
flashes, but nothing further. The printer cable I'm using works if I print
to my printer from Windows.
I have "Local print service" enabled and "Remote UNIX Print Service"
disabled. printer1 is set to "Enable printing" and "Accept new local jobs"
but not to "Accept new remote jobs"
I'll appreciate any help with this.
David Nash
Ric Pennington
Try renaming getone in the /etc directory
Ric
Jeff Liebermann
wrote:
>Try renaming getone in the /etc directory
Let me explain *HOW* that works. getone is the program that retreives
SNMP information from a network device. HPNP uses getone to detemine if
the print server is ready for action. However, HPNP was inscribed in the
days before 3 port servers and therefore *ASSUMES[1]* that the print
server has only one printer port. It therefore only check the first port
to see if the attached printer is ready to print. It ignores the other
two ports.
If you take the printer on the first port offline, HPNP will not print to
the other two ports until the first port printer is back online.
By renaming getone, the incredibly stupid HPNP program assumes that SNMP
is not installed on the system, and to therefore not bother asking the
print server if it's ready for action. It just *ASSUMES[1]* that it's
allways ready.
Incidentally, if you need some entertainment, try:
getmany IP_of_print_server public iso
On some printers, it will even tell you how many pages are left in the
paper bin.
[1]Assumption: The mother of all screwups.
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Tony Lawrence
>
> On Wed, 13 Oct 1999 11:06:16 -0500, Ric Pennington <ri...@summit-soft.com>
> wrote:
>
> >Try renaming getone in the /etc directory
>
> Let me explain *HOW* that works. getone is the program that retreives
> SNMP information from a network device. HPNP uses getone to detemine if
> the print server is ready for action. However, HPNP was inscribed in the
> days before 3 port servers and therefore *ASSUMES[1]* that the print
> server has only one printer port.
Apropos of 3-port print servers:
This morning I had a customer who wanted to move 3 (count
'em, three!) serial/parallel printers some distance from the
digi serial ports to which they are presently joined. I
suggested using a print server, gave him a rough idea of
price, but explained that it could be less expensive if the
printers were to be close together because we could use a 3
port model.
Wonderfully intelligent client that he is, his answer was,
no, he'd rather have 3 separate devices because in case of
failure he doesn't want to lose 3 printers at once, and the
cost difference is "chump money".
Gotta love the bright ones.
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