topic Adding printer through SAM. in Operating System - HP-UX

Adding printer through SAM.

Frank Sam — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:39:50 GMT

Hi i am trying to add a printer through SAM,

SAM==>Printers and Plotters==>LP Spooler==>Printers and Plotters==>

And i am getting this message.

Attempted to determine if the fileset "LP-SPOOL" from the product â
â "PrinterMgmt" exists on your system but the swlist command failed. â
â Stderr from swlist is: â
â â
â ERROR: Could not contact host "-a". Make sure the hostname is â
â correct and an absolute pathname is specified (beginning â
â with â
â "/"). â
â ERROR: More information may be found in the daemon logfile on this â
â target (default location is -a:/var/adm/sw/swagentd.log).

Please advise.(screen shot is attached.)

Thanks in advance.

Re: Adding printer through SAM.

Duncan Edmonstone — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:03:29 GMT

Someone who is used to admin'ing Linux boxes has run the following command on your system:

hostname -a

On linux that command would show hostname aliases.

On HP-UX it has the unfortunate consequence of setting the actual system hostname to "-a".

Hopefully you know what the hostname of this system is *supposed* to be and you can reset it using:

hostname

so if its supposed to be called scooby:

hostname scooby

That should also sort out you SAM/printing problem...

HTH

Duncan

Re: Adding printer through SAM.

Sharma Sanjeev — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:12:03 GMT

Hi

Looks like hostname of your system get changed to -a.

Please change the hostname as it was.

hostname < name >

Regards
sanjeev