topic Re: Can't remove remote printer in Operating System - HP-UX

Can't remove remote printer

j773303 — Thu, 05 Jun 2003 03:03:55 GMT

I use sam to remove the remote printer, but got the error meesage as below,
Lp destination "test" does not exist on hpuxserver, does anyone know how to trouble it?

Re: Can't remove remote printer

twang — Thu, 05 Jun 2003 03:08:44 GMT

#lpshut;
#lpadmin -x test;
#lpsched;

Re: Can't remove remote printer

Keith Bevan_1 — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:55:31 GMT

#lpshut
#lpadmin -x test
#lpsched

previous reply spot on but you may want to miss out the ;

The message you received is symptomatic of the host entry for the remote printer being changed/removed/or commented out in the /etc/hosts file.

Re: Can't remove remote printer

Geoff Wild — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 15:06:08 GMT

Actually, it's a capital X and no space:

lpadmin -Xtest

Rgds...Geoff