topic Re: LPD Printing in Operating System - OpenVMS

LPD Printing

Peter Clarke — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 03:49:25 GMT

Hi,

We have a queue on our Alpha ES40 machine and we have a separate queue on our unix machine both pointing at the same printer however this has caused problems with queues stalling etc...

So we have set up a new queue on the unix machine and pointed it at the alpha lpd is running but when we print from the unix box the alpha accepts the data but puts it to a log file and it doesnt come out on the printer??
I have found a log file in sys$specific:[tcpip$lpd] called tcpip$lpd_in_euraxp_1.log and is this file it gives me the error:

Failed to map remote user/host (pclarke@europaaix) to local account
Error : user !AS has no permission to print on this host

Anyone know what this means??

Cheers

Peter

Re: LPD Printing

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 04:24:07 GMT

You need to decalre a proxy (ucx set prox) or remove the application proxy setting of the service (SET SERVICE LPD/FLAGS=NOAPPLICATION_PROXY).

Wim

Re: LPD Printing

Peter Clarke — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:14:34 GMT

Hi Wim,

This did'nt work still getting same error in the log file!!!

Anyone any idea's????

Regards

Peter

Re: LPD Printing

Antoniov. — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 11:44:18 GMT

Hi Peter,
now I can't access to a LPD queue but if I remember LPD on vms create a printer que with specific processor; so I guess you could set protection command as follow:
$ SET QUEUE /PROT=(W:RMSD)

Antonio Vigliotti

Re: LPD Printing

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:10:36 GMT

Peter,

Did you change the permanent db and restart the service (or tcp completely) ?

Wim

Re: LPD Printing

Peter Clarke — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:20:31 GMT

Antoniov,

Yes that has worked!!!

Cheers

Peter

Re: LPD Printing

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Thu, 05 Aug 2004 12:21:11 GMT

It might also be a case sensitivity problem in your proxy ...
In ucx (3.2 or 4.x) there were problems like that. You can flag your service with case (which stands for case_insensitivity). But it is unknown if lpd will use it.

Wim

Re: LPD Printing

Peter Clarke — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 03:20:37 GMT

Sorry Wim,

I think you were correct on this one it was'nt until i changed the protection on the queue that this worked as i stopped the queue and restarted it.I have since put the protection back to how it was and it still works so seems that you were correct.

Regards

Peter

Re: LPD Printing

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 03:27:17 GMT

Which one was it : case insensitive or proxy simply missing ?

Wim

Re: LPD Printing

Peter Clarke — Fri, 06 Aug 2004 03:32:09 GMT

I removed the application proxy setting!!

Cheers

Peter