VMS Flag Pages In LPD Symbiont

[Phil.Howell]

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

[Robert Atkinson]

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.

[Phil.Howell]

tcptrace/tcpiptrace on port 515 ?
Phil

[Peter Zeiszler]

Would "set que/sep=flag" work?

[Robert Atkinson]

Nope!

[Phil.Howell]

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

[Robert Atkinson]

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

Rob.

[Galen Tackett]

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

[Robert Atkinson]

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.

[JerryK]

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.......