topic Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname in Operating System - HP-UX

Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

lbdwag — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:53:30 GMT

Hi:

I could not find anything on how to change the 'location'/IP/hostname of a current network/remote printer on HP-UX 11.31.

I would rather not delete and re-add it, since all I really need to do is change this 1 piece of information.

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Don

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

Tim Nelson — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:01:19 GMT

Which is it.. A network based printer or a remote printer. They are different.

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

lbdwag — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:03:13 GMT

It is a printer that has a Jetdirect card installed and sits directly on the network.

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

Tim Nelson — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:11:41 GMT

Ahh.. network printer.

review /etc/lp/interface/PRINTER_NAME

grep for PERIPH=

if using a hostname then edit /etc/hosts

if using IP address then edit the interface file for the new IP address ( would recommmend creating a hostname and then next time you only have to edit the host file ).

Nothing more to do...

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

lbdwag — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:15:27 GMT

That does not exists in my file(s).....

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

Tim Nelson — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:17:20 GMT

You have no file under /etc/lp/interfaces/ with a name of your printer ??

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

lbdwag — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:27:08 GMT

there are files there: lp0 lp1 lp2, etc... but when I ran: cat lp0 | grep PERIPH= it did not return anything.

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

Dennis Handly — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:55:58 GMT

>there are files there: lp0 lp1 lp2

You can search all of them with:
grep PERIPH= /etc/lp/interfaces/*

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

Heiner E. Lennackers — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:02:19 GMT

Even the printer has a jetdirect interface it does not necessary means that jetadmin is been used.
The name of the printer and the output of "lpstat -s" can be useful to identify how the printer is connected.

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

Sandeep_Chaudhary — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:20:33 GMT

u can do it with SAM

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

Bill Hassell — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:18:48 GMT

Your JetDirect printer(s) were added incorrectly. It would be as very good idea to delete each JetDirect printer and add it back using the addqueue command. You'll get all sorts of new printer options and a much more robust connection.

addqueue -h 12.34.56.78 -q myprinter -t off -b off -r off

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

lbdwag — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:53:42 GMT

#grep PERIPH= /etc/lp/interface/*

does not find anything.

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

lbdwag — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:55:16 GMT

#lpstat -s

gives me:

device for lp4: /dev/null
remote to: text on hostname.domain.com

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

lbdwag — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:58:34 GMT

all of the printers were migrated from Tru64 using the Tru64 UNIX remote printer queue migration tool

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

Tim Nelson — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:39:33 GMT

>>#lpstat -s

>>gives me:

>>device for lp4: /dev/null
>>remote to: text on hostname.domain.com

Indicates that your printer lp4 is a "remote spooled" printer. Only way to change the IP is to delete it and re-add it.

If this printer truely has a jetdirect interface I would second Bill's recommendation to delete it and re-add it using the "network" type of config. Makes life so much easier.

Another quick option would be to simply change the IP address related to hostname.domain.com either in the /etc/hosts or on your DNS server.

Re: Change network printer 'location'/IP/hostname

lbdwag — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:49:14 GMT

I removed the printer and then re-added it via SMH... all seems to be working now.

Thanks for all of your help.