topic Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont in Operating System - OpenVMS

VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Robert Atkinson — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:38:22 GMT

Has anyone here managed to get a VMS flag page using the LPD symbiont?

I've defined the VMS_FLAGPAGES logical :-

$ DEFINE /SYSTEM TCPIP$LPD_VMS_FLAGPAGES TRUE/EXEC

...but I still can't get a flag page out.

Do I need to do something with the PASSALL parameter in LPR_SETUP?

Where am I going wrong?

Rob.

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Ian Miller. — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:04:59 GMT

"Where am I going wrong?" - I could suggest using LPD is where you are going wrong but parhaps its just too much sun :-)

For current version
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/doc/732final/6526/6526pro_050.html#pri_lpd_flag_sec

suggests the VMS-Flagpages configuration option

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Robert Atkinson — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:16:04 GMT

Cheers Ian.

I don't have a copy of the TCPIP$LPD_CONF.TEMPLATE file - can you email one over?

Rob.

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Robert Atkinson — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:28:31 GMT

Managed to get one from another node, and added this :-

ALPHA_ROB$$$ sea TCPIP$LPD.CONF vms-flag
VMS-Flagpages: TRUE
ALPHA_ROB$$$

Restarted the LPD service, but still no joy.

BTW, running VMS 7.3-2 and TCPIP version :-

ALPHA_ROB$$$ tcpip show ver

HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.4 - ECO 4
on a AlphaServer ES40 running OpenVMS V7.3-2

ALPHA_ROB$$$

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Ian Miller. — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:31:07 GMT

what version of TCPIP Services for OpenVMS are you running ?

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:34:29 GMT

Rob,

Did you also mark the queue with /default=flag ?

Wim

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Robert Atkinson — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:43:07 GMT

ALPHA_ROB$$$ SQ RAA*/FUL
Server queue RAA_FTG_OCE1, idle, on ALPHA::, mounted form FORMATE_A4
/BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT=(FLAG,FORM=DEFAULT) Lowercase /OWNER=[SYSGRP,SYSTEM] /PROCESSOR=TCPIP$LPD_SMB
/PROTECTION=(S:M,O:D,G:R,W:S) /RETAIN=ERROR

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Robert Atkinson — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:43:58 GMT

RAA_FTG_OCE1|raa_ftg_oce1:\
:lf=/TCPIP$LPD_ROOT/000000/RAA_FTG_OCE1.LOG:\
:lp=RAA_FTG_OCE1:\
:rm=co12048:\
:rp=fmt_ftg_oce1:\
:sd=/TCPIP$LPD_ROOT/RAA_FTG_OCE1:
#

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:50:19 GMT

Restarted the LPD service, but still no joy.

How did you do that ? Did the symbiont get restarted ? I normally do a stop/que and a stop/id to be sure.

Wim

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Robert Atkinson — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:59:15 GMT

I used TCPIP$CONFIG to stop and restart the service.

Rob.

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Phil.Howell — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 20:02:44 GMT

Some printers have a setting to enable/disable the "LPD Banner page".
This is usually just user/host/job name, and is frequently disabled at the printer to prevent an "extra" banner.
I don't know if a vms/lpd flag page would be supressed if this was disabled.
Telnet to the printer and to enable, set
banner:1
Phil

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Robert Atkinson — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 03:45:24 GMT

The queue is attached to the "Generic Text" driver, so there's no settings available for the LPD Banner.

Is there any way I can see if VMS is attempting to send a flag page?

Rob.

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Phil.Howell — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:00:42 GMT

tcptrace/tcpiptrace on port 515 ?
Phil

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Peter Zeiszler — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:36:47 GMT

Would "set que/sep=flag" work?

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Robert Atkinson — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:40:57 GMT

Nope!

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Phil.Howell — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:16:48 GMT

The process associated with the printer remains after an lpd shutdown, so as Wim mentioned you should kill the process RAA_FTG_OCE1, and then restart lpd.
Phil

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Robert Atkinson — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:54:32 GMT

OK, will set it up on a test node, and let you know.

Rob.

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Galen Tackett — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:20:55 GMT

Rob,

Did you ever get flag pages working with LPD?

I've had the same problem and would love to get it resolved.

Thanks,

Galen

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

Robert Atkinson — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 04:37:15 GMT

It's still with our support company and HP. I've chased this morning, so I'll let you know if I get anything back.

Rob.

Re: VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

JerryK — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 10:52:50 GMT

One of the last questions when you add a new LPD print queue using mcr tcpip$lpdsetup (I think that is spelled correctly) is Do you want a flag page. I know this works because I always answer No to prevent it, the default is Yes. Maybe you can delete and add the queue with a Yes.......