topic Adding a remote printer in Operating System - HP-UX

Adding a remote printer

Andrew Young_2 — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 01:56:13 GMT

Hi

When attempting to create a remote printer connection and running:

lpadmin -pmyprinter -orm10.10.10.10 -orprint -mrmodel -v/dev/null -orc -ocmrcmodel -osmrsmodel

I get the following error:
lpadmin: can't open member file

I suspect its permissions somewhere but I can't find where.

HP-UX 11i PA-RISC

Thanks

Andrew Young

Re: Adding a remote printer

Rajeev Shukla — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:15:50 GMT

Use the following command

lpadmin -p$printer -orm -orp$printer -mrmodel -v/dev/null -ocmrcmodel -osmrsmodel

Re: Adding a remote printer

Andrew Young_2 — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 02:21:35 GMT

Apart from a small typo in the remote spooler name thats what I did.

Re: Adding a remote printer

Chris Shepherd_1 — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:15:17 GMT

Do you get the same error if you try adding the printer via sam?

Re: Adding a remote printer

Andrew Young_2 — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:29:23 GMT

I tried sam first. Same error. Which is what makes me think it is directory permission somewhere. It works fine on our development box. The only difference is that we have moved /var/spool/lp onto a file sytem of its own because of the volumes we print.

Re: Adding a remote printer

Robert-Jan Goossens — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:45:21 GMT

Hi Andrew,

Could you check the permissions of

# ls -lad /etc/lp
drwxr-xr-x 8 lp bin 1024 Oct 17 2003 /etc/lp
# ls -lad /var/spool/lp
drwxr-xr-x 4 lp bin 1024 Feb 17 16:02 /var/spool/lp

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: Adding a remote printer

Andrew Young_2 — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 03:54:41 GMT

Hi Robert-Jan

It was the permission on the /etc/lp directory that were set to root:sys. I have changed it and it worked fine. Thanks for your help.

Regards

Andrew Young