topic Print to a HP-UX10.20 lp - queue in Operating System - Linux

Print to a HP-UX10.20 lp - queue

Liesinger Horst — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:56:27 GMT

How can I connect a Linux printing queue to a HP-UX Printing queue?
The printer is an a HP750 with HP-UX 10.20 on the parallel connector.
The problem seams to be between System V and BSD printingsystem.

Re: Print to a HP-UX10.20 lp - queue

Ted Ellis_2 — Tue, 15 Oct 2002 16:05:09 GMT

you may want to consider CUPS if you are not using it. I recently installed CUPS on our RedHat 7.3 install and configured that as our lp printing tool.. works great. If you are using 7.3 RedHat, CUPS comes with the O/S and can be installed from CD 1 of the set with rpm. If you do install it, make sure you get the updated drivers installed as well. There are a couple of simple changes that need to be made with regard to the lpd process that runs... www.cups.org is your friend

Ted

Re: Print to a HP-UX10.20 lp - queue

Balaji N — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 07:22:17 GMT

Hi,

You could use lpr as well and configure a remote unix printer.

Try using the printtool gui for the same.

HTH
-balaji

Re: Print to a HP-UX10.20 lp - queue

Kodjo Agbenu — Wed, 16 Oct 2002 20:44:00 GMT

Hi,

Try to force the strict BSD standard compliance, because I guess HP-UX spooler cannot understand specific Linux LPRng options.

You can do this using printtool GUI in the "edit" tab :

Queue type => check Strict RFC1179 compliance.

If you prefer changing the /etc/printcap file directly :

...
...
:bk: :control_filter=/usr/share/printconf/util/strip_control_file.sh: ...
...

Good luck.

Kodjo