topic Re: local printer sharing in Operating System - HP-UX

local printer sharing

Darren Murray_1 — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:31:59 GMT

Hi all,

If I have a hp-ux server with a local printer attached to it is it possible to share that printer to another server...ie a linux server.
If so could someone help me out

Re: local printer sharing

Rajeev Shukla — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:37:54 GMT

Yes you could share the printer connected locally on HPUX with a Linux server.
Configure a remote printer on linux using this command
lpadmin -p$printer -or -orp$printer -mrmodel -v/dev/null -ocmrcmodel -osmrsmodel

Cheers
Rajeev

Re: local printer sharing

Rajeev Shukla — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:52:55 GMT

Hi Dont use the lpadmin command given above, instead configure a remote printer using the GUI interface in Linux, Networked Unix(LPD) printer with the server name

Re: local printer sharing

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:03:20 GMT

I would suggest Samba, known in the hp world as CIFS/9000.

Server for hp-ux
http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8725AA

client for hp-ux
http://software.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=B8724AA

SEP

Re: local printer sharing

Darren Murray_1 — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:04:47 GMT

So nothing has to happen to the hpux server?The server has a local printer connected via a mux called prt45 and the server name is rex.

Re: local printer sharing

Rajeev Shukla — Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:42:00 GMT

yes you dont have to do anything on the HPUX server

Re: local printer sharing

bhavin asokan — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 00:06:33 GMT

hi,

i think rlpdaemon should be running on your hp server.see the manpage for rlpdaemon
man rlpdaemon

rlpdaemon is a line printer daemon (spool area handler) for remote
spool requests. rlpdaemon is normally invoked at boot time from the
/sbin/rc file or started by inetd(1M), when necessary. rlpdaemon runs
on a system that receives requests to be printed. rlpdaemon transfers
files to the spooling area, displays the queue, or removes jobs from
the queue.

The following entry should exist in /etc/services for remote spooling:

printer 515/tcp spooler

To start rlpdaemon from /sbin/rc, invoke the command:

/usr/sbin/rlpdaemon

To start rlpdaemon from inetd, the following line should be included
in the file /etc/inetd.conf:

printer stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/rlpdaemon rlpdaemon -i

If the remote system is the same as the local system and rlpdaemon was
not started by inetd(1M), the local system name must be included in
file /etc/hosts.equiv.

regds,